{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-19", "file": "debates1954-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "09a3fe92a0679ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.824.6", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "I have already answered similar Questions on 8th and 15th December. There is no case for saying that agents provocateurs were used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.824.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-01-19", "file": "debates1954-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "09a3fe92a0679ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not say so before?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "On the technically legal interpretation of a charge of cowardice it was inaccurate, and I have now given the accurate figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-19", "file": "debates1954-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "09a3fe92a0679ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "t, 1947, a new crime was invented, namely, \"inefficient husbandry.\" It is not defined, and indeed cannot be denned, as it is necessarily a matter of opinion and must fluctuate with world conditions. Government interference with farming, carried to extremes in the Iron Curtain countries, has failed. I commend to the House two pamphlets recently issued by the Economic League, of 24, Buckingham Gate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-19", "file": "debates1954-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "09a3fe92a0679ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "ing increased production. Yet a Conservative Minister of Agriculture operates compulsory powers in a free country with the excuse that it will increase production. I once asked the Minister if he could say how much production had increased because of the dispossession policy. Lo and behold! he could not say. Here is the opinion of a well known big farmer and journalist, a very highly educated man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-19", "file": "debates1954-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "09a3fe92a0679ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.882.1", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about butter?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Fraser", "preceding_text": "t came into power production in agriculture was some 43 per cent. above the pre-war level. It is now 51 per cent. above that level. That is a material improvement. Although there was a natural anxiety among farmers— much abated by recent events and explanations—during the period when we were changing from an economy based upon scarcity to one in which scarcity no longer exists, or is much reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-19", "file": "debates1954-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "09a3fe92a0679ee1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": " welcome it. In conclusion, there is one thing I should like to say. I am very sorry that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Belper is not in the House. I had hoped to say this earlier in my speech, but I was waiting for him to come in. However, he is not here and I must say it now. He is a very fine speaker and he has a very powerful imagination, but he is about as constructive as a khamsin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-19a.895.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SHIPBUILDING", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Because he was a Conservative.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I did not want in the course of my very full tour to put the municipal leaders in the various towns and cities through which I passed to the bother of actually coming out to welcome me. It is true that I called upon the Lord Mayor of Newcastle, but that was because I was staying in Newcastle for the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.999.7", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Neither I nor my Department have received any hostile representations from responsible bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.999.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1003.2", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "It is the view of Parliament, as expressed in the last Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1003.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1003.3", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "It is the view of Parliament, as expressed in the last Session—[HON MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—that the efficiency of British transport as a whole, and therefore its net revenue, will gain by the action taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1003.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": ". There has been a deliberate, and I think quite monstrous, rise in interest rates on housing projects which will cause very considerable expenditure in the months to come and will mean a very considerable added burden on the rates. There has been, under the aegis of the right hon. Gentleman, a considerable rise in building costs—an enormous rise, a fantastic and incredible rise in building costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "nterest rates on housing projects which will cause very considerable expenditure in the months to come and will mean a very considerable added burden on the rates. There has been, under the aegis of the right hon. Gentleman, a considerable rise in building costs—an enormous rise, a fantastic and incredible rise in building costs. [An Hon. Member: \"No.\"] Indeed yes, yes, yes. The evidence is there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1075.3", "colnum": "1075", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " would be fantastic and impossible. So I am saying in all seriousness that the situation is one of great gravity. What can a corporation do when it is faced with this problem today? The cost of modern houses is getting intensely prohibitive. I do not understand economics and I do not know why it is inflationary to give an electrician 5s. a week extra but is not inflationary to put up rents by 5s.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1075.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1100.3", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The rents will go up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "as based on the average cost of repair of a house of £171. Presumably there will be some rent, because these houses will continue to be inhabited. The right hon. Gentleman said that £171 was to be spent on a house at once on an average, but what is going to happen about the upkeep of the house during the next 15years? Will the rent not go some way to cover the cost of the annual upkeep afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1100.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1114.4", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am not willing to accept that Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1116.2", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooman-White", "preceding_text": "le for the occupants. With regard to the fifty-fifty formula, hon. Gentlemen opposite have been pleading for a bigger allocation for the local authorities. These matters are subject to negotiation, and a certain advance has been made in the position of the local authorities. I believe I am correct in saying that the fifty-fifty ratio is the working formula for most legislation at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1118.1", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The bush.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "h the money that has been spent on bringing a house into tolerable condition and the maintenance of such a house over 15 years. We are told that somehow or other—no one knows quite how—the Government have arrived at a figure which over 15 years is to cost about £171. The hon. Member for Rutherglen asked us to say what we thought ought to be the figure. Really, it shows an amazing wandering around—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1118.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-01-20", "file": "debates1954-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "0722c3ea5364cbc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1134.2", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Commander T. D. Galbraith)", "preceding_text": "We have listened to a lot of criticism during this debate and I am rather sorry that so much of it was purely destructive criticism and so little constructive. In fact, there has not been one constructive suggestion put forward from the benches opposite during the whole of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-20a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-21", "file": "debates1954-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8e9d2373c7ec2b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-21a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " Alternatively, we are still in the period when Private Members' Motions are balloted for, and when very good opportunities are open to Private Members to initiate debates, whereas, as far as the Government are concerned, we have not got very many days at our disposal at this time of the year. However, if the right hon. Gentleman likes to have conversations about this matter, we can talk about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-21a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-21", "file": "debates1954-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8e9d2373c7ec2b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-21a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINES AND QUARRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Black spittle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "must be properly ventilated. I hope the House will think that is an important new provision from the point of view of safety against explosions. Now I come to the immensely important issue of pneumoconiosis. I do not believe this is a new disease, because I have observed when I have read the Report of the Royal Commission of 1840 frequent references to what was called in those days miners' asthma.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-21a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-21", "file": "debates1954-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8e9d2373c7ec2b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-21a.1240.1", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINES AND QUARRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, the number of men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fort", "preceding_text": "To answer that point, could I now give some figures about the accident rate per million tons of stone?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-21a.1240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-21", "file": "debates1954-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "a8e9d2373c7ec2b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-21a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINES AND QUARRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "t of all that consultation, which almost invariably results in agreement between the parties before a regulation is made, the House will understand that the industry as a whole is not enthusiastic about having Parliamentary supervision of regulations. On the other hand, we recognise entirely that Parliament wishes generally and as a matter of principle to have supervision of delegated legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-21a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-22", "file": "debates1954-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "e084c06972261cd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-22a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINES AND QUARRIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "I think it will be useful if I reply straight away to one very important question which was put to me by the hon. Member for Houghton-le-Spring (Mr. Blyton), who has just sat down, if I may have the leave of the House to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-22a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-25", "file": "debates1954-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "634b73bcd8cd2367", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-25a.1439.2", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PHILIPPINES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds-Parker", "preceding_text": "I can give no general assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-25a.1439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-25", "file": "debates1954-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "634b73bcd8cd2367", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-25a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (HOURS OF WORK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Isaacs", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Isaacs", "preceding_text": "th the odium of declining to confirm a convention when they know that if they in fact confirmed it, they could not carry it out. Let us see what has happened in some other countries. Denmark has prohibited baking between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. The German Federal Republic has prohibited baking between 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. In Ireland—I assume this means the Republic of Ireland, although I am not quite sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-25a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-25", "file": "debates1954-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "634b73bcd8cd2367", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-25a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BAKING INDUSTRY (HOURS OF WORK) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Bowden", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Bowden", "preceding_text": "ense is talked about \"new\" and fresh bread. New or fresh bread is something that takes a great deal of describing because a loaf of bread can feel rather hard and stale after a few hours out of the oven whereas, on the other hand, given the right humidity and temperature, it can be quite fresh to the touch and delightful to eat after 15 or 20 hours. It is usually thought that the 12-year-old loaf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-25a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-25", "file": "debates1954-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "634b73bcd8cd2367", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-25a.1563.2", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOOK OUT, FARMERS!", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"You have made it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "is a question of altering the appeal machinery against dispossession, or if it is a case of eliminating out of the Act altogether the right of the Ministry to dispossess in certain cases, that would require legislation, and because that would require legislation it would be wrong for me tonight to make any recommendations as to what the procedure should be. That was the point I was trying to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-25a.1563.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-25", "file": "debates1954-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "634b73bcd8cd2367", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-25a.1567.5", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOOK OUT, FARMERS!", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Mr. G. R. H. Nugent)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Mr. G. R. H. Nugent)", "preceding_text": " that nowadays county agricultural committees do not work by way of farming land. They do not have a management apparatus. They have as far as possible given up the land that they were farming as an emergency measure during the war. In the main, I think that that commands the support of hon. Members throughout the House and, I am certain, of the taxpayer, because it was a very expensive operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-25a.1567.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-26", "file": "debates1954-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "caca5a8b7766e041", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1586.5", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": " We are confident that the employers' and workers' representatives concerned are fully conscious of their responsibilities and will take full account of the national interest. We are also aware that industrial unrest can most successfully be avoided by effective joint negotiation. As hon. Members know, much is being quietly achieved in this field. During 1953, the cost of living has been steadier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1586.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-26", "file": "debates1954-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "caca5a8b7766e041", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1586.5", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "ke full account of the national interest. We are also aware that industrial unrest can most successfully be avoided by effective joint negotiation. As hon. Members know, much is being quietly achieved in this field. During 1953, the cost of living has been steadier—[Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"]—than in any recent year and, indeed, the index number of food prices has shown a decline in the past few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1586.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-26", "file": "debates1954-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "caca5a8b7766e041", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1587.0", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister honestly, sincerely and truly believe that statement that his officials have given him? If so, will he go out and meet some of the workers and the trade union leaders, and particularly housewives, because they will tell him that he has got all his facts and figures wrong and that the price of food is continually rising.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-26", "file": "debates1954-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "caca5a8b7766e041", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1587.1", "colnum": "1587", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "This is a very important matter, and I hope that this House will not try to play party politics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-26", "file": "debates1954-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "caca5a8b7766e041", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1612.0", "colnum": "1612", "heading": "KENYA (REPORT OF INQUIRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More serious?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. When the right hon. Gentleman has read the report, he will see that the question of monetary awards is very fully dealt with in my Report which I am giving to the House. Those two particular incidents were not concerned with monetary awards but were of a more serious nature and they are outlined in the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-26", "file": "debates1954-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "caca5a8b7766e041", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1711.5", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTERHOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "here—they are getting tired of hearing me say it now—that in Adamsdown there are only three open spaces. One is occupied by the prison, the second by the cemetery, and the third by the slaughterhouse. There are 500 or 600 people living within yards of the slaughterhouse. Quite apart from the menace to public health, as I regard it, from these large fat flies feeding on the flesh lying in the open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-26a.1711.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-01-27", "file": "debates1954-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "96e7c1b375d4babf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1723.11", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "For the reasons I gave to the House a short time ago, it would not be proper for me at this stage to give names.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1723.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-27", "file": "debates1954-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "96e7c1b375d4babf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1724.9", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WIRELESS AND TELEVISION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Does the Assistant Postmaster-General realise that this is really an extraordinary attitude? Surely, it is elementary that the Government will have a responsibility to secure absolute political impartiality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1724.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-01-27", "file": "debates1954-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "96e7c1b375d4babf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1742.2", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TELEPHONE SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Can the Assistant Postmaster-General explain, if the country is not in a position to afford a reasonable development of the telephone service, how it is that it is able to afford the development of sponsored television?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1742.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-27", "file": "debates1954-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "96e7c1b375d4babf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1781.0", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "But the new towns are the landlords, and it is a very different thing when we remember that the private landlord, whose principal object is to make profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-27", "file": "debates1954-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "96e7c1b375d4babf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Which side is the hon. Gentleman on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "e right hon. and learned Member for Neepsend (Sir F. Soskice), though welcome in itself and for himself, deprives me of the opportunity of congratulating the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Hale) on the unusual fluidity of the Front Bench opposite below and above the Gangway which I noticed just now. I should have liked to be able to congratulate the hon. Member on crossing that formidable gulf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-27", "file": "debates1954-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "96e7c1b375d4babf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": " equipped to do so—but so far as the immediate history of the term \"enfranchisement\" is concerned, there is no doubt that confusion has been caused in the minds of the public about the belief of hon. Members opposite. People believe that Members opposite, in talking about enfranchisement, want to give the ground tenant something for nothing; that it means a complete gift of the land to the tenant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-27", "file": "debates1954-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "96e7c1b375d4babf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1873.1", "colnum": "1873", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why should he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ctitious certainty of tenure. That may read very well, but it is misrepresentation. What I should like to ask even now is this, what kind of lease- hold enfranchisement do the party opposite propose. Nothing has been said of what they really propose in any debate we have had on this subject. The right hon. and learned Gentleman did not commit himself on that matter. He studiously avoided doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-27", "file": "debates1954-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "96e7c1b375d4babf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1884.0", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS (IMMIGRATION CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "preceding_text": "Do you really mean that in 1914—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-27", "file": "debates1954-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "96e7c1b375d4babf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1907.1", "colnum": "1907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ALIENS (IMMIGRATION CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "d who can only be sent back to meet the penalty of death. They form the most important category of people we have to consider when discussing what sort of alien Orders we ought to have. But it is only fair to recognise that there is a new type of refugee in the world, of whom there are some in this country already, namely, refugees from the United States of America. I know many of them personally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-27a.1907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-28", "file": "debates1954-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "cac46d46e99824ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-28a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "May I offer this suggestion to the right hon. Lady?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-28a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-28", "file": "debates1954-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "cac46d46e99824ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-28a.1965.2", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that I read the reports of the speech of my noble Friend. As far as I can see, and as I am sure is the fact, there was no statement of policy in it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-28a.1965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-28", "file": "debates1954-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "cac46d46e99824ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-28a.1967.3", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The issue was voted upon at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-28a.1967.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-28", "file": "debates1954-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "cac46d46e99824ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-28a.1994.1", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "I trust that I may have the permission of the House to reply to a few of the points which have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-28a.1994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-29", "file": "debates1954-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b23b606604e6b233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-29a.2101.3", "colnum": "2101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Hewitson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Hewitson", "preceding_text": "y to strengthen the Measure. It has been said by some that they would like a Bill with more in it, a Measure which went further and incorporated other legislation. I know my hon. Friend the Member for Oldbury and Halesowen and his humility in most things. He promotes the Bill with sincerity and in the hope that it will increase the protection given to some of our dumb friends. There is one animal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-29a.2101.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-29", "file": "debates1954-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b23b606604e6b233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-29a.2119.0", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOL BETTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "es or that they were scoundrels and that they ought not to be entrusted with running their business. There was no allegation about their commercial integrity. All he said was that they were big firms and employed a great many people. If he thinks that big firms which employ many people are fit and proper subjects to come under some measure of control by the Government, by all means let him say so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-29a.2119.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-29", "file": "debates1954-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b23b606604e6b233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-29a.2130.1", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOL BETTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain M. Hewitson(Hull, Central)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain M. Hewitson(Hull, Central)", "preceding_text": "onceived and badly drafted. Even if it has been drafted with greater care, it would have received little support in this House. I agree with the annual publication of accounts, but to make it a condition that accounts must be published weekly would place a burden on the punter—the man who pays his half-crown or his shilling—and would make dividends very much less than they are at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-29a.2130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-01-29", "file": "debates1954-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "b23b606604e6b233", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-29a.2133.3", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOL BETTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Hewitson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Hewitson", "preceding_text": "If that is their method—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-01-29a.2133.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.11.5", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Has there not recently been an investigation by the British Medical Association into this matter? Is not the Minister aware that because of the rising prices of foods a number of people are falling below—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.11.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.34.5", "colnum": "34", "heading": "ANGLO-JAPANESE TRADE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Informed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "As a matter of fact, my right hon. Friend informed the cotton industry leaders, and particularly Sir Raymond Streat, on a confidential basis of the probable outcome of the negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.34.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "ANGLO-JAPANESE TRADE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "e the war, permits the entry of a wide range of Japanese consumer goods into the United Kingdom. I understand that this Agreement has been made and, therefore, I find it impossible to bring this Motion within the Standing Order on the ground of urgency. The Agreement has been signed and there is nothing that the House can do about it now, except possibly to dismiss the Government who have made it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "ANGLO-JAPANESE TRADE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "May I put a point to you, Mr. Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "preceding_text": "made, the Government have laid upon them a trust to provide not only a good new rifle for the soldier but the best possible rifle that can be obtained for him. It is our view that the Prime Minister has broken that trust, and there could be no more important trust than that laid upon him in this particular capacity. He has broken it because, first, he does not fully understand the issues involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "d military judgment could have been reversed have taken place since the first comparative trials in 1951. I challenge either the Prime Minister or the Secretary of State for War to say when the official full-length comparative trials took place between the new Belgian rifle firing the ·300 round and the new British rifle firing the ·300 round, who was there and where the trials were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "preferred by certain international expert boards had, in this interval, while we were reaching a common round, been still further improved. It was generally considered more suitable, and as far more likely to be widely adopted than any other competing weapon. In these circumstances, on 30th October of last year, 1953, the Army Council, taking a different view from its predecessor two years before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.59.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.59.3", "colnum": "59", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ved. It was generally considered more suitable, and as far more likely to be widely adopted than any other competing weapon. In these circumstances, on 30th October of last year, 1953, the Army Council, taking a different view from its predecessor two years before—[Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"]—but not under pressure—taking a different view why, do hon. Members suppose? Because things had happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.59.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I challenge the Prime Minister. I have carried a rifle further and longer than the whole of the Government Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.62.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.62.4", "colnum": "62", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not withdraw at all. I see nothing invidious or insulting in speaking of the length of time that people have carried a rifle. Certainly not. I do not feel at all ashamed to say that the F.N. is a more soldierly weapon on the march and is more suited for use in manual exercises—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.62.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON, MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I hope that myright hon. Friend would get an Army Council reasonably objective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.75.0", "colnum": "75", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"A foolproof rifle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I think we should all get bogged down on the technicalities. I do not pretend to have enough technical knowledge to justify my speaking about the technical aspects. This morning I saw the Belgian rifle for the first time. I have not fired a rifle at a target for at least eight years, but on this occasion I managed to get a group of which I should have been extremely pleased when I was in the Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.75.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wake him up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I am in some sympathy with my hon. Friend because there were several occasions earlier in the debate when hon. Members opposite were speaking which might have tended to dull my hon. Friend's perception of the point I am trying to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "What I am saying is that there is an impression in some quarters—it has been ventilated in the course of this debate and previously—that if hon. Members and the right hon. Gentleman fire the rifle and regard it as satisfactory, that is sufficient for our purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "rejudice as he did against the Labour Government as a whole. So the right hon. Gentleman is the last man in the world to talk about insulting language. Perhaps that is the reason he has adopted this attitude on the Belgian rifle—he dislikes the British rifle because he disliked the Labour Government who were behind the British rifle. Is that the trouble? Perhaps we can be left with our suspicions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "n, which I hope is falsified, that another conflict emerges and our men have to enter the conflict, we are concerned with the fact that they want to be provided with the right weapon. It is not for the Prime Minister to determine whether it is the right weapon, or for some hon. Members to determine it because they are more familiar with the use of a rifle. It is for the military technical experts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.93.3", "colnum": "93", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "n spite of the fact that our experts recommended the use of our rifle. Is it not strange that on the same afternoon they should be castigated—and quite properly—because of their trade agreement with Japan? Is it not strange to have these two subjects in an afternoon exposing the Government for what they are? It is about time they were exposed. I am going to make a suggestion to the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.93.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.95.5", "colnum": "95", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Rule is suspended.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) has cut me very short of time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.95.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.97.2", "colnum": "97", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "Of course, but the right hon. Member is rather ingenuous. The point is that Canada has stated that for her Government to manufacture a rifle which has been turned down by the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.97.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.97.4", "colnum": "97", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "If he does not, I say to him that by adopting the E.M.2 he would forfeit all prospect of production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.97.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.97.6", "colnum": "97", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "n the E.M.2 was the work of a Pole. Do not let us make too slavish a business of sticking to British prestige. We all like it and want it. But this is a matter of such vast importance that we must follow the right course. Supposing we say, despite the fact that the Americans and Canadians have expressed a preference for the F.N. rifle, \"We are not coming with you, we are going to adopt the E.M.2.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.97.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "In view of the statement the right hon. Gentleman has just made, I would recall that the Prime Minister said that this was not a matter which could be said to be urgent as it would not affect our position for a good many years to come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.100.4", "colnum": "100", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman is quoting from a Cabinet paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.100.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.101.10", "colnum": "101", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I do not know who signed it; it was sent by the War Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.101.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.102.3", "colnum": "102", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I think part of the trouble of the right hon. Member for Dundee, West is that he is not allowing me to develop my argument to show what happened with the United States after that was done. The point I was making to the right hon. Gentleman is that after they reached the decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.102.3", "colnum": "102", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I think part of the trouble of the right hon. Member for Dundee, West is that he is not allowing me to develop my argument to show what happened with the United States after that was done. The point I was making to the right hon. Gentleman is that after they reached the decision—[ Interruption .]—I do not know whether the right hon. Gentleman thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.103.2", "colnum": "103", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Does the right hon. Gentleman now assert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.104.4", "colnum": "104", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. We have been led to believe that the right hon. Gentleman was quoting from a document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.104.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.104.9", "colnum": "104", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I have not the document, but it is unlikely that the War Office would tell me this if it were incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.104.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.104.9", "colnum": "104", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "e them. I repeat The U.K. object remains complete standardisation on the F.N. and the ·280 as recommended in the Joint Report. That is quoted direct from my brief from the experts. What I should like to say is that hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite have made their points. They have done their best to prove that they are right. What I would say is that this rifle is a really fine rifle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.104.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.104.9", "colnum": "104", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "ourthly, it is simpler to maintain. Fifthly, it is simpler to teach as, again, hon. Gentlemen who went to fire it today must have seen. Sixthly, there is less recoil. Seventhly, I want to point out to hon. Gentlemen that one of the great objections made by the hon. Member for Aston was concerned with the flash. The overcoming of flash both in the E.M.2 and the F.N. has the same remedy—the bayonet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.104.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "As I have said, if the right hon. Gentleman is challenging my facts, I would certainly take up the question on the facts. What would be unwise would be for me now to undertake to give a signal the contents of which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.107.4", "colnum": "107", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "I presume that the right hon. Gentleman has seen the document himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.107.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.125.3", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. E. G. Gooch", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. G. Gooch", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman. They have been pulverised many times. He even repeated the arrant nonsense about the Prime Minister living in a tied house. Any man who sees some parallel between the Prime Minister leaving his official residence and a farm worker being thrown out of a farm tied cottage is incredibly stupid. I am quoting, and I want to assure the right hon. Gentleman that I did not write this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.125.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "If we do not do something of this kind, there will be a still bigger drift from the land than there is at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.138.3", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": " It does what is necessary in order to complete the hill farming picture. It will encourage many owners to modernise cottages and to encourage shepherds and their wives by giving them decent living conditions. I wish therefore to support the Bill, because I think it will do good in the isolated communities on the hill side in the crofting counties in the north of Scotland and the Scottish Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-01", "file": "debates1954-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "1e90146d4e735cdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "her side of the House can now be used in the industry to bolster up whatever particular view someone wants to put. Thus, the whole controversy is stoked up again, and that would only be justified if, in fact, it could be shown that there was some advantage coming out of this Bill. Every Member who has spoken from the Government side has said, \"Of course, I cannot show any evidence coming from it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-01a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-02", "file": "debates1954-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "07e23a6453a6830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.182.7", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Eggs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "But, in the main, are not these items decreased by a small amount, and is it not a fact that they are not used every day like tea, coffee, butter and so on, which have gone up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.182.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-02", "file": "debates1954-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "07e23a6453a6830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "That has nothing to do with the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-02", "file": "debates1954-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "07e23a6453a6830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.199.6", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have frequently spoken about a re-deployment of our forces in the Canal Zone which are at the present moment a very heavy drain upon our resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.199.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-02", "file": "debates1954-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "07e23a6453a6830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.201.4", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Wait and see.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "That simply will not do. I have asked the right hon. Gentleman a perfectly fair and simple question. I have asked him whether his answers mean—in spite of the speech of the Minister of Defence at the Constitutional Club—that the Government do not contemplate any modifications in their defence policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-02", "file": "debates1954-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "07e23a6453a6830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH ECONOMIC CONFERENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "May I be permitted to congratulate the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the honour which Her Majesty recently conferred upon him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-02", "file": "debates1954-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "07e23a6453a6830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "nt, both those hopes were falsified and the United States rejected—and still reject—the ·280 round and the Belgian rifle. In the event, therefore, neither of the propositions contained in the signal was considered either by the Army Council, the Ministry of Defence or the Government, because this eventually did not arise. Therefore, will not the Secretary of State now unreservedly withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.215.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-02", "file": "debates1954-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "07e23a6453a6830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.218.4", "colnum": "218", "heading": "BRITISH ARMY (NEW RIFLE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "on I brought the telegram into the debate is that there is an exact parallel. The policy decision in 1951 was, assuming standardisation, which rifle should we choose? The then policy decision was in favour of the Belgian rifle. More than two years later, hon. Members opposite have taken us to task, using very extreme language, for having taken exactly the same policy decision as was taken in 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-02", "file": "debates1954-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "07e23a6453a6830a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.313.3", "colnum": "313", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I would rather have a look at that point, because there are different practices and I do not like to lay down a rule of conduct in the middle of a debate for judicial officers. So perhaps the hon. Member will allow me to look at the problem again. My hon. Friend the Member for Barry (Mr. Gower) has ranged over a number of points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-02a.313.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.397.0", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Bill will stop it all.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "n of the South-East Electricity Board. In the Report we read that the South-East Scotland Board plan to reinforce the 33,000-volt Berwickshire Ring at Eccles.… This will be of considerable benefit to that county. Also, in the Lothians sub-area a 33,000 volt double circuit line is being planned to reinforce supplies in the northern part of East Lothian. That is moving in the right direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.395.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Anstruther-Gray", "preceding_text": "that the Scottish Electricity Boards will still be parties to the wages agreements agreed between the central authority and the appropriate trade unions in terms of the Act of 1947. On the face of it this seems a reasonable provision but my Association feels that it might be a good thing that the Scottish Boards should have autonomy on wages matters as well as their other functions under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.397.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.399.4", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": "en to be a member, and the old electricity undertakings as far back as the early 1920s? Is it now proposed that this should be broken? It has nothing in itself to do with nationalisation, it is an old-established Whitley Council agreement, and, therefore, I say that the suggestion of the hon. and gallant Gentleman would be outrageous within the general tradition of the electricity supply industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.399.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Morgan", "preceding_text": " will certainly do my utmost to encourage the location of some large-scale industries in the Highlands. He went on: I have some good reason for hoping—I might put it even higher than hoping—that the S.C.W.S., the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, will plant industries in the Highlands whenever electrical power is available.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 24th February, 1943; Vol. 387, c. 183–4.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ask the Chancellor.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": "make everything worse, all I can say is that they are very poor Scotsmen. The right hon. Member for East Stirlingshire (Mr. Woodburn) started his speech by saying that \"this bad Bill\" and \"this niggling Bill\" was trying to wreck all the economic improvements brought about by the Labour Government. Where did we stand in 1951? On the verge of bankruptcy. Where are we today in our economic resources?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": "olicy in 1945 of Home Rule for Scotland and the policy pamphlet which they issued in Scotland, and which they afterwards ran away from. I cannot sit here and listen to one Member after another making allegations against hon. Members on this side of the House, and for that reason, Mr. Speaker, I wanted to catch your eye and be able to refute some of those statements. Now I want to come to the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He has nothing to do with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": "be started in the south of Scotland. The hon. Member for West Lothian, talking about the would-be consumers of electricity in his own constituency, said that they would have been only too pleased had there been generation of power carried out in that area. If we get a Board actuated by the Secretary of State which will produce the same drive in the south as has been done by the Board in the north—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.454.3", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The hon. Member would not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": " Tradeston (Mr. Rankin) has also departed. The Chairman of the Kitchen Committee ought to be flattered that the temptations of his department are more enticing than those of the debate. The hon. Member made a point about wage rates and the question was touched on by my hon. Friend the Member for Stockport, South (Sir A. Gridley), who has so much experience of these matters. I see no problem there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.454.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"A vertical wind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ucrats. Hon. Members opposite in days gone by decided that they were going to put an end to this high and mighty body of bureaucrats. They were going to free us from the enslaving bonds which bound us to Whitehall—\"Scotland Arise,\" that was their challenge in those days. But their patriotism has failed in responsibility. The fresh wind which it was prophesied would blow through St. Andrew's House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": ". Members opposite realise where they are going and the questions they are raising. True, they have a Minister of State to help them out in the various jobs they have to do, though, so far as I can see, he is more or less a Government-paid propagandist for the Tory Party who goes about the country explaining their policies to the people of Scotland. What has the Secretary of State presently to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member should have been here when his hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South spoke. That hon. Gentleman told us about lazy trade unionists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Officials.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Member should have been here when his hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South spoke. That hon. Gentleman told us about lazy trade unionists—[An Hon. Member: \"No.\"]—leaders, organisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.485.3", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " said that the B.E.A. has to consult the Hydro-Electric Board, but the B.E.A. ultimately decides and the Hydro-Electric Board must then comply. I have explained to the House why it is that we thought that, in trying to establish another independent Board in Scotland, it was a little difficult to ask it to be subservient to a London Board which will no longer have any interest or power in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.485.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.487.4", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He is being overworked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " that the Bill will not add unduly to the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Scotland. For this reason. The Secretary of State is now responsible for electricity in half of Scotland. With regard to the other part, he, as Minister of Town and Country Planning in Scotland, is every day involved in talks and discussions with the two southern Boards about their future plans and programmes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.487.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-03", "file": "debates1954-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "f1ecb93a2aa01b10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.487.4", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " this reason. The Secretary of State is now responsible for electricity in half of Scotland. With regard to the other part, he, as Minister of Town and Country Planning in Scotland, is every day involved in talks and discussions with the two southern Boards about their future plans and programmes. [An Hon. Member: \"He is being overworked.\"] It may be, but the Bill will not add much to his labours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-03a.487.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-04", "file": "debates1954-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "cfe47f3cec651ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-04a.607.1", "colnum": "607", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS ON GOING INTO COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Multilateral trade.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "says, \"Of course.\"Does he want more trade with the non-dollar world? Certainly. The Conference spent a whole session on this. And last but not least the hon. Member for Morecambe and Lonsdale (Sir I. Fraser) extracted a series of assurances that he also wants more intra-Commonwealth trade. If we are to have more trade in all directions, what does that amount to? It is just that we want more trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-04a.607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-04", "file": "debates1954-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "cfe47f3cec651ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-04a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS ON GOING INTO COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. P. Stevens (Portsmouth, Lang-stone)", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What does it mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. P. Stevens (Portsmouth, Lang-stone)", "preceding_text": "ion. I find right at the beginning something which seemed to me neither platitudinous nor cliché-founded, if that is the correct term. I quote: The object of our present meeting was to consolidate the economic progress made by the sterling area and the Commonwealth during the last twelve months… There is nothing vague or platitudinous about that. It is a historical statement of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-04a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-04", "file": "debates1954-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "cfe47f3cec651ccf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-04a.689.4", "colnum": "689", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS ON GOING INTO COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "trols—which he says we are throwing away; and we agree that we are—let us look at the mess he got into in 1951. He probably remembers the speeches be made at the Mansion House, in Washington, and to the Trades Union Council. In those speeches he drew a most terrifying picture of the abyss into which we were falling at a very fast rate. That could not be said to have been caused by external forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-04a.689.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-05", "file": "debates1954-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "c9a81a9d4feb8207", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-05a.745.0", "colnum": "745", "heading": "PRISONS (OVERCROWDING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "f this type of offender went to prison in 1951. It is a tragic blunder that we should use the process of imprisonment for this sort of thing. In an intelligent and decently-ordered country there would be a system of child allowances which would completely wipe out the necessity for separation orders at all. I see that my right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) raises his eyebrows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-05a.745.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-08", "file": "debates1954-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "577ace11eeb9ba70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.824.7", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS CATERING (KITCHEN COMMITTEE STAFF)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steward", "preceding_text": "If we exclude kitchen porters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.824.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-08", "file": "debates1954-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "577ace11eeb9ba70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"No advertising.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "nt the strength of this Parliament on the Floor to be delegated upstairs to a Committee of Members. The late Mr. Lloyd George, after he had ceased to be a Minister, gave evidence in support in principle of the Fred Jowett scheme, but it was after he was a Minister. He did not do it while he was a Minister. I am dealing with all these matters at greater length in a book which I am about to publish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-08", "file": "debates1954-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "577ace11eeb9ba70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.869.0", "colnum": "869", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "The shareholders are the select committee investigating the affairs of public companies. The boards of directors are responsible to the shareholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.869.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-08", "file": "debates1954-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "577ace11eeb9ba70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.871.3", "colnum": "871", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The hon. Member was a bad secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holmes", "preceding_text": "y, to be given as a bonus to shareholders. The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Blackburn, West referred in his speech to the shareholders. I happened at one time to be branch secretary of what was the largest mine in this country. There were 4,700 members on my book. For 24 years I was branch secretary of that lodge and, from start to finish, I never met the board of directors or the chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.871.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-08", "file": "debates1954-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "577ace11eeb9ba70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "me to stay before we appoint such a high-powered person with such a long-term appointment as has been suggested. If the Committee is to be set up it ought to be the best Committee Parliament can devise. I have noticed that all of those who dissented from the appointment of such Committee—and I think I am right here—said, \"If you must have one, for goodness' sake make it a Committee of both Houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.898.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-08", "file": "debates1954-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "577ace11eeb9ba70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.949.4", "colnum": "949", "heading": "NATIONALISED INDUSTRIES (SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath (Lord Commissioner of the Treasury)", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-08a.949.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": " a dark night and round a bend in the river—hiding salmon in a marsh which only existed in the imagination of the water bailiff? Will the Minister advise the Lord Advocate that it is now time to make an inquiry into the working of this Act in Scotland? Is he further aware that on 26th March next an attempt will be made in this House to fasten a replica of this Act on the English and Welsh anglers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.981.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.984.0", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "As the Secretary of State for Scotland is now assuming statutory responsibility for all electricity matters in Scotland, would it not be reasonable for him to support the plea of the Chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, who so urgently wants to see these Highland railways electrified? Incidentally, so do I.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.983.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.998.4", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": "On reflection, I beg to give notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.998.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — POLICY DOCUMENTS (MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister agree that the particular telegram, to which, I think, my hon. Friend is referring, was not a communication to a foreign power but was a telegram fromone part of the War Office to another; a telegram for which, of course, I take the fullest responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "PRICE CONTROL (DETERGENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "ng all the bells and ran away, so that when I and other householders went to our front doors no one was on the step except a packet of Daz. More than £2½ million is spent each year on advertising these things in the Press, not to mention posters, free distribution and the competitions in which houses worth £4,000 and cars with several hundred pounds worth of petrol are given away as prizes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "PRICE CONTROL (DETERGENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "ned big business shall not play the fool with public money any longer, but should cut down this advertising to reasonable proportions, and should do what is manifestly wanted, namely, reduce prices. It might surprise and exasperate hon. Members opposite to hear it suggested that the money spent on this advertising campaign is in fact public money, but I insist that it is, and that for two reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "PRICE CONTROL (DETERGENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Which half?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "d how the different individuals happen to be rated for Income Tax and Surtax, and so on. But, roughly speaking, when an advertiser of petrol inflames the passion for speed and acceleration by putting up pictures of leaping tigers, and when, for example, D. H. Evans give us a picture of a smug polar bear enjoying himself with a rather scantily dressed young lady, we are paying one-half of the show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1010.7", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "PRICE CONTROL (DETERGENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about tea?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ap has got to rise. So I believe that the first lesson we can learn from experience, which we ought not to ignore, is that Government controls of any kind increase the prices of the goods we buy. This lesson is reinforced by what has happened over the last two years since we have been freed from the kind of control which the hon. Baronet now wants to re-apply. I will give the figures to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1010.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1010.7", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "PRICE CONTROL (DETERGENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Soft soap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "o the House. [An Hon. Member: \"What about tea?\"] Sunlight soap has gone down from 1s. 0½d. to ll½d.; Fairy soap from 1s. to 11d.; Persil from 1s. 9d. to 1s. 8d.; Rinso from 1s. to 11d. As far as detergents are concerned, whilst there has not been any great reduction in cost, it is clear that the quality has improved so much that the housewife is getting much better value than before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1010.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1010.7", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "PRICE CONTROL (DETERGENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " could bring down the cost of the article. Any business man knows that the best advertisement he can produce for his goods is to reduce their price, and at this season of the year, when there are queues outside the shops which have \"annual\" sales, that point is brought home to us vividly. What advertising does is to put the various manufacturers of the same product in competition with one another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1010.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1029.7", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "PURCHASE TAX (CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": " strips. If we accept the existence of this objection, the imposition of new taxes ontiles and strips is not the only solution. The obvious alternative is to remove the tax from the linoleum and certain other types of flooring materials with which these strips are competing. That indeed was what we considered at the time, and we intended to carry out as soon as general tax reliefs became possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1029.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1059.5", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "PURCHASE TAX (CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "These tiles are attached to a floor and cannot be moved. They are part of the house, and therefore, to all intents and purposes, they are not a floor covering at all. They are the means of putting a floor into a house, and on top of them floor covering is laid. That is the technical difference between these two articles. It seems to me that the Government are extremely foolish—at this time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1059.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1059.5", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "PURCHASE TAX (CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Throwing stones.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "Also, these tiles provide a considerable export trade and their cost cannot be kept down to a point at which they are easily exportable unless there is a reasonable home market for them. It is absurd for the Government to spoil one of our export industries by imposing a tax where one was not imposed previously by a Socialist Government. I have no intention of voting against the Government tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1059.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-09", "file": "debates1954-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "de4119a06480eb3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "PURCHASE TAX (CHANGES)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "ustry which would have restored her morale and even caused her to cross the Floor of the House. I now come to the question of space heaters, which was referred to by my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro). May I say with what astonishment and gratification I heard him supporting the Government in the first portion of his address? Nowadays, we are gratified if we get any support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-09a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1150.5", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "eman that he sanctioned the Britannia aircraft on the understanding that there would be no commercial use for them? Will he say whether the chairman voluntarily offered the 12 months'standstill arrangement or whether the right hon. Gentleman asked them to agree to that standstill arrangement? Finally, will he take it from me that there is a lot to be said, not merely for a reduction of his salary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1154.0", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beswick", "preceding_text": "ere is not even a tacit understanding—and all that has happened is that the Minister has asked the chairman of the Corporation to explore the possibilities together with the chairman of the private company—will the Minister be good enough to tell the House why it is that in this agreement all the concessions are made by the public Corporation? What advantage is to follow to the public Corporation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1154.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1154.4", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "The Minister having given the assurance—by a nod—that he will give special regard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1154.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1155.4", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have wasted too much time on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1155.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "All those who talk in that fashion lose sight altogether of the fact that the Commission will be reimbursed both by the sale of the lorries and by the transport levy designed to fill the gap.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (SPARKING PLUGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "rice is quite considerable. If I may, I will try to give the House what I think is the difference between those figures. Roughly speaking, the cost of production appears to be in the neighbourhood of 1s. 6d., and the selling price, as hon. Members know, varies from 3s. 6d. to 5s. 6d. It is not, of course, true to say that there is in this business a specific price ring. It is not true to say that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (SPARKING PLUGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " for concern on this issue. The House will remember that last July my right hon. Friend referred the issue of exclusive selling and collective boycott to the Monopolies Commission under Section 15 of the Act, which was a very substantial step; and I tend to oppose the hon. Gentleman's Bill because I do not think it would be proper to single out this particular industry for this specific treatment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICE CONTROL (SPARKING PLUGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "of the House has been raised, may I ask whether it does not appear that the whole purpose of moving these Motions, both yesterday and today, is a deliberate manoeuvre? Yesterday the hon. Baronet the Member for Gravesend (Sir R. Acland) made a remark that his Motion related to one of a series of Measures, and may not this be recognised as part of a deliberate manoeuvre to get over party propaganda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1201.3", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " industry that we are no longer worth consulting and that the Minister should not even come to this Committee and defend the point. By comparison with his predecessor the right hon. Gentleman would not even make a Parliamentary Secretary on a poor day. He is the first who has not consulted every section of the industry. I have never been really angry about his administration of agriculture before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1201.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1237.0", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "rate under Section 10 of the 1946 Act; it can be invoked and can be very speedy indeed. Therefore, there is no excuse for houses not being either built or reconditioned under the existing terms of the Act. The hon. Member for Norfolk, South-West (Mr. Bullard), in an article in the \"Farmers' Weekly\" on 5th February, said: I have always felt that this wrangle over tied houses need not go on.…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1236.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "He was greeted with laughter because those who took part in the debates on the Hill Farming Bill in 1946 realised that the right hon. Gentleman intended putting in the Bill exactly what is proposed today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1245.2", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HILL FARMING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denys Billiard(Norfolk, South-West)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denys Billiard(Norfolk, South-West)", "preceding_text": "ould provide for. Most employers do go to the courts, and I said in my article that I thought it would be a good thing if it were made very plain by the statute that they should all go to the courts. I stand by that, and I do not see anything particularly wrong in it. I do not think that in voting for the four weeks' notice I shall have done anything inconsistent with what I wrote in that article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAPANESE TRADE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What about the Peace Treaty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "re Japan was concerned. We were under frequent pressure from a number of countries to give most-favoured-nation treatment to Japan. We were in constant consultation with the industries, and, I say this in fairness, like the President and the present Government we refused to give that most-favoured-nation treatment. We had constant consultation with Lancashire whenever the problem of Japan came up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1287.4", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAPANESE TRADE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "lls ours a half-hearted Motion, I wonder what epithet he could find to describe the Amendment: …acknowledges the sense of responsibility to the nation and to the Colonies which Her Majesty's Government has shown and its impartiality in taking this decision, and. whilst recognising that advantages will accrue to the trade of the Empire, urges Her Majesty's Government\"— Urges them to do what?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1287.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAPANESE TRADE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"He will not get much farther.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend can always do that if he has time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-10", "file": "debates1954-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "a173fd0ecf8e281b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1303.3", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JAPANESE TRADE AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Edwards", "preceding_text": "ow, and it is this which they do not know. The Economic Secretary said that there would be £25 million worth of textiles going to the Colonies. When I asked him for a corresponding figure for the Dominions, he declined to give it; he declined even to give us a total figure, and it certainly would be no breach of confidence to tell us. We have not a clue, any of us, where the £200 million is going—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-10a.1303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-11", "file": "debates1954-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "04d291026511e746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1364.2", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CABINET PAPERS (ACCESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The Prime Minister said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "am much obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for that assurance which, I think, now puts us right. I would only ask him whether he does not recall that in the long years in which he was Minister, and in the long years in which he was an ex-Minister, he himself has been very active in asserting his right to Departmental documents, and whether he will see that he will at leastgive us the same rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-11", "file": "debates1954-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "04d291026511e746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1384.1", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "They are straightforward financiers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-11", "file": "debates1954-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "04d291026511e746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "., dividends have gone up only 60 per cent. It might be more realistic to take the period between 1946 and 1951, which is a post-war period. There again, whereas dividends have gone up by only 40 per cent., wages have gone up by 60 per cent. I feel, and I say it without any hesitation, that it is time that we realised that investors are equally entitled to a larger share of a larger national cake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-11", "file": "debates1954-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "04d291026511e746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1406.2", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": " the matter is very simple. Hon. Gentlemen opposite do not want any profit to accrue to the individual. They have an intense dislike of it. I am afraid that they have another idea at the back of their minds, which is that the cheaper they can keep the price of shares on the Stock Exchange the more easily they will be able to further their nationalisation programme if they ever come back to office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1406.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-11", "file": "debates1954-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "04d291026511e746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He has done so.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. Should not the hon. Member declare his interest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-11", "file": "debates1954-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "04d291026511e746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "he value of their shares increased after the deal by just about £200,000 in all. I wish to ask hon. Members opposite to put themselves in the position of workers, for example, in the engineering industry who are involved in wages disputes and whose leaders, on their behalf, are asking, not for hundreds or thousands of pounds, but for a half-penny more or a penny more an hour. What sort of feeling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-11", "file": "debates1954-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "04d291026511e746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "What I will do is to refer the hon. Gentleman to the quotation from the \"Economist,\" which, as I said, sometimes takes one view and sometimes another. But the question which is clearly the point here is that the richest and most powerful investors to a certain extent have it in their power to achieve this result. No one denies that losses are sometimes made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-11", "file": "debates1954-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "04d291026511e746", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "cial activity absolutely static, we should get nowhere. There must be a sense of adventure, a sense of risk and, at times, a sense of acquisition. Someone said that we want to avoid \"sharks.\" In any case, we cannot avoid whales or the normal natural law of either these great sea mammals or other animals. I suppose the easiest definition of take-over bids was provided when the whale swallowed Noah—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-11a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-12", "file": "debates1954-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad908538c8f38f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-12a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CORONERS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Elwyn Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Elwyn Jones", "preceding_text": " may say so, long overdue Measure. Those of us who are connected with the criminal courts and the work of pathologists know the great importance of their work as an essential part of the administration of justice. In that administration it has long been apparent to us that the coroner's court is the Cinderella in the matter of remuneration to the professional men engaged in the work of the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-12a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-12", "file": "debates1954-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad908538c8f38f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-12a.1569.1", "colnum": "1569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW REFORM (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "d to act on the recommendations of committees and commissions or whether 17 years is above or below the average; but it certainly is an appreciable time, and that recommendation has now been reinforced by the subsequent report which has been referred to. Cynics are apt to say that lawyers like to have parts of the law in a confused and difficult state for their own nefarious and professional ends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-12a.1569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-12", "file": "debates1954-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad908538c8f38f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-12a.1580.0", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOL BETTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "e in the number of businesses concerned. In 1950, there were 42 and at the end of last year the number was 35. The only other point I would bring to the attention of the House is that it may be suggested that further consideration of the Bill should be postponed until the results of the poll— which, as I read in the Press, is being organised by the Pool Promoters' Association— should become known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-12a.1580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-12", "file": "debates1954-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "ad908538c8f38f0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-12a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POOL BETTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "re about it except for this. It has been said that the pool promoters themselves are conducting an inquiry among the people who take part in the pools to learn what their opinion is. I do not know to what extent that will have any influence on any legislation which is to be put into operation. I leave the matter there until whatever decision they themselves take or whatever decision is taken here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-12a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-15", "file": "debates1954-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "520bcf68de3556f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-15a.1626.5", "colnum": "1626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not aware that anyone who visits the homes of these old-age pensioners and scrutinises their shopping lists will find it is utterly impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-15a.1626.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-15", "file": "debates1954-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "520bcf68de3556f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-15a.1663.3", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Mechanisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "gave the facts and figures in order. To a lesser extent, the same difficulty applies to industrial labour. The Socialist Government in 1948 called for a reduction of 22 per cent. in the number of men working on the roads. That was carried out. Today the road force throughout the country is only 81,000 as compared with 126,000 before the war, and it is manifest that no sudden expansion is possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-15a.1663.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-15", "file": "debates1954-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "520bcf68de3556f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-15a.1695.1", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is what we should like to know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "What has he done to deserve this reputation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-15a.1695.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1794.4", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "I have a copy of the text. It is rather long, but I will hand it to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1812.0", "colnum": "1812", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craddock", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that his answer will cause dismay up and down the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1812.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1815.4", "colnum": "1815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Cullen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Cullen", "preceding_text": "In my estimation, the reply given yesterday was very unsatisfactory. Is the Chancellor aware that this section of the community comprises the folk who are suffering more than others because, owing to the rising cost of food, they are deprived of the necessities, such as a little butter and milk? Does he know that he is taking from them \"the cup that cheers\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1815.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "600,000. Now, only two months afterwards, the Minister was even more vague than he was about the price at which we bought the Cuban sugar. Now, we find that it will not be £36,600,000, but over £50 million. He gives no explanation of this grave miscalculation. Surely the right hon. and gallant Gentleman knows what goes on, knows what was purchased, and what will be purchased in a few months' time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1827.1", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "subsidies are not subsidies at all, but merely commercial losses. However, in general, in so far as the Minister of Food fails in his purpose of abolishing the food subsidies, I exult; I only commiserate with myself that I have so little to exult about. I want to ask him a few questions about the food subsidies. I notice that the Minister is asking for £3½ million more for the meat subsidy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1831.1", "colnum": "1831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "e said that the level of retail prices had been lower than he forecast. He told us that there was a subsidy of £3 million. Two months later he comes here and says, \"Oh, it is not £3 million; it is £27 million.\" What has happened? The Minister claims to have abolished a subsidy which, in the previous year's Estimates, was £22,200,000. We have endured dear eggs during most of the last calendar year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1860.3", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Planned economy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member will allow me to continue. We must try to relate the total supply to the total demand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1861.1", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "r is in stock. Unless there were some drop in world prices of sugar, no loss can be incurred to the taxpayer, except perhaps on account of a minor or local emergency such as would arise from damage to these stocks. How has this Supplementary Estimate arisen? Simply because my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his last Budget conceded the point I put to him on 6th February, 1953.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1861.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1861.1", "colnum": "1861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"What was the hon. Gentleman's reward.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "was not in his place. I urged on my right hon. Friend the desirability of going out into the world markets and, as a temporary and nonrecurring expedient, buying a sufficient tonnage of sugar from any source from which he could obtain it, to enable him to de ration sugar in the United Kingdom. My right hon. Friend, two months later in his Budget speech, showed that he took my advice on this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1861.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1863.0", "colnum": "1863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "ered in this House on 6th February, 1953—and this was two months before sugar was derationed—my right hon. Friend, in a passage which I am going to quote, gave the true answer to the sums of money that are being provided in this Supplementary Estimate for sugar. This is what my right hon. Friend said: My hon. Friend the Member for Kidder minster himself put to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1862.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1874.2", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Charles Hill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food (Dr. Charles Hill)", "preceding_text": "all show where the extra expenditure has been incurred between the last Supplementary Estimate and this. The hon. Gentleman began, as he so often does, in a mild, interrogatory way, by asking what happened to potatoes—that was his particular question. My hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro), with that unerring touch of modesty which he brings to the examination of these problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1874.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1914.2", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ASHRIDGE (BONAR LAW MEMORIAL) TRUST BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "If I may give a spot opinion, I should say that that would clearly be a breach of the trust imposedby Clause 6 of the Bill. Am I to assume that the right hon. Gentleman agrees that there would be no knowing breach of this provision by the governors constituted as they are? Does he accept that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1914.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1914.8", "colnum": "1914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ASHRIDGE (BONAR LAW MEMORIAL) TRUST BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. I. O. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsensical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. I. O. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I will answer the two questions as one by putting another question. Would the hon. Member agree that if the right, specific and declared purpose of the Bill and of these proposals is to set up a non-party, non-political, non-sectarian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1914.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1916.2", "colnum": "1916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ASHRIDGE (BONAR LAW MEMORIAL) TRUST BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will no doubt get an opportunity of saying all this. I was about to come to the points put to me by two hon. Members opposite. I have some sympathy with the hon. Member for Dudley, who made the initial speech in the debate, about the rigid exclusion of political opinions from a course of adult education. I am not so political as the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1917.3", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ASHRIDGE (BONAR LAW MEMORIAL) TRUST BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "There the party view is balanced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1917.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1917.4", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ASHRIDGE (BONAR LAW MEMORIAL) TRUST BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "neutrality, that is the only way in which it could be done. If there were any effort; at political propaganda on one side or the other, it would merely be a breach of the trust drawn up by these three great legal luminaries, whom no hon. Member opposite, I am glad to note, has accused of being likely to harbour any such thoughts.I want to say one further thing, and I am sorry to have been so long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1917.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1917.6", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ASHRIDGE (BONAR LAW MEMORIAL) TRUST BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I just want to make this final point. I was a little bit shocked by what the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Shields said about education. The right hon. Gentleman seemed to think that education was no use unless it was directed to a specific political or economic end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1917.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1918.3", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ASHRIDGE (BONAR LAW MEMORIAL) TRUST BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Send for him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "not recollect an occasion when that has not been the case. I think that the points raised tonight, particularly by my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mr. Swingler), should have been commented on by one of the Ministers responsible for this Department; in fact, it seems to me just about the kind of thing on which the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education might excel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1918.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-16", "file": "debates1954-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "9ce694b949e75e79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1943.1", "colnum": "1943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ASHRIDGE (BONAR LAW MEMORIAL) TRUST BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "It may be useful if I may say a word as Leader of the House. It has been quite obvious from the ran of the discussion that there has been less enthusiasm for inserting this particular provision into the curriculum of Ashridge College than for raising the general issue of Private Bill procedure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-16a.1943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-17", "file": "debates1954-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "30fb1f8070113843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-17a.1975.1", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. and gallant Gentleman seeks to complicate this announcement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-17a.1975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-17", "file": "debates1954-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "30fb1f8070113843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-17a.2041.0", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "gue against it. Hon. Members on occasion have done so and, as they are entitled to do, have adduced arguments to suggest that that is disadvantageous to all concerned. It is plain that if we are to pursue that policy we cannot say we will postpone the act envisaged by the Bill until we are satisfied that we have pursued the opposite policy. That would make complete nonsense of the Bill. Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-17a.2041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-17", "file": "debates1954-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "30fb1f8070113843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-17a.2055.4", "colnum": "2055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. H. Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. H. Morgan", "preceding_text": "The West Indian problem is quite a simple one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-17a.2055.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-17", "file": "debates1954-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "30fb1f8070113843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-17a.2074.4", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marquand", "preceding_text": " about the great public interest of the Colonies in the continued existence of even a truncated and attenuated Commission. It will be remembered that the President of the Board of Trade caused consternation in the House, and will, I think, cause consternation among large sections of opinion in the Colonies, by his announcement tonight that, although there are arguments for long-term bulk purchase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-17a.2074.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-17", "file": "debates1954-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "30fb1f8070113843", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-17a.2082.3", "colnum": "2082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COTTON BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Shackleton", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It cannot be West.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Shackleton", "preceding_text": "her capital which may be available and other resources which they should be using at this moment to increase their competitive efficiency, will weaken Lancashire. I hope that the Minister will have a word to say on the stock position. There is a more serious angle to the stock position, which was mentioned in another context by, I think, my hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn, East (Mrs. Castle).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-17a.2082.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-18", "file": "debates1954-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e3dc0aaf28ebe135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2152.0", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "With your forbearance and the consent of the House, Mr. Speaker, I was phrasing my question in the shortest possible manner. The London Retail Meat Traders' Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2151.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-18", "file": "debates1954-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e3dc0aaf28ebe135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2152.3", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldwin", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. What has this supplementary question to do with the original Question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2152.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-18", "file": "debates1954-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e3dc0aaf28ebe135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2153.0", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I agree with your condition, Mr. Speaker. I will accept your terms—provided, of course, that the first few words introducing the question do not count. My question is to the Minister of Agriculture. Will he make a statement about the statement of the London Retail Meat Traders'Association on the statement of his right hon. Friend the Minister of Food?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2152.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-18", "file": "debates1954-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e3dc0aaf28ebe135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2154.8", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLOUR BAR", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shocking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beresford Craddock", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend is to make a statement on the matter, will he bear in mind the interest of the white man occasionally?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2154.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-18", "file": "debates1954-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e3dc0aaf28ebe135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2156.8", "colnum": "2156", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "MONDAY, 22ND FEBRUARY—We find it necessary to ask the House to consider a Time-table Motion for the Housing Repairs and Rents Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2156.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-18", "file": "debates1954-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e3dc0aaf28ebe135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2158.1", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that it is treating the House with scant courtesy to put down tomorrow a time-table Motion for debate on Monday. We shall hardly have any time at all to consider it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2158.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-18", "file": "debates1954-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e3dc0aaf28ebe135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2158.3", "colnum": "2158", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "In view of the Prime Minister's personal guarantee at the opening of the Session that full opportunity would be given for the expression of all views on this subject, will he now instruct his right hon. Friend to withdraw the time-table Motion, because it is a breach of his own undertaking to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-18", "file": "debates1954-02-18a.xml", "sha256": "e3dc0aaf28ebe135", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2160.3", "colnum": "2160", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Would it not be much better than proceeding with such indecent baste to this Guillotine Motion if the Government were instead to take the Second Reading of the Industrial Organisation and Development Bill, which they originally proposed to take a fortnight ago, and about which, I understand, they are having some trouble on their own side of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-18a.2160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-19", "file": "debates1954-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "be5aca1b0d7fd86b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-19a.2293.6", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Robinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Robinson", "preceding_text": "an offer a five-day week, much more convenient hours, and often much shorter hours. Secondly the hospitals are frequently isolated and there are poor transport facilities. As to status, there seems to be a feeling in some parts of the nursing profession, particularly, I regret to say, amongst the matrons of teaching hospitals, that somehow mental nursing is an inferior category to general nursing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-19a.2293.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.39.2", "colnum": "39", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Harold Macmillan)", "preceding_text": " What is reasonable expedition? Have we been premature in putting the Motion on the Order Paper today? Have we been impatient? Have we been guilty of a breach of the traditional sympathy and courtesy by which every Government live and which they owe to the Opposition and on which our Parliamentary life itself depends? I am bound to say that, on an examination of the facts, our conscience is clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.39.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is the Chairman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "fashioned, obstruction. We have been very slow. That is partly due to Members who have been purposely slow, and partly due to hon. Members who are naturally slow; but we have really been very slow. Amendments have been moved on very small matters and protracted into very long debates. I have moved the Closure on a number of occasions and on no occasion has the Closure been refused by the Chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Notes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "n in that. He was artificial from the beginning to the end. In fact, the right hon. Gentleman conveyed a general impression of artificiality from the first sentence to the last. Very rarely in the history of discussions of this sort have we listened to a less convincing speech. May I point out, with every respect, that one of the essential conditions of advocacy is a certain degree of spontaneity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "her the Bill be taken on the Floor of the House, but we have not objected to sitting longer in Committee in order to give the Bill the examination it requires. The reason the Guillotine is being applied is that the Government have too small a majority to carry through their legislation without violating the procedure of the House. They have hon. Members who have so many businesses and professions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has happened.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "s operation, Clauses are not subject to the microscopic examination which they deserve. If they are rushed through—as, in the end, they inevitably will be—they will contain such ambiguities that the courts themselves will be doing the legislation. The ambiguity of the Clauses will put the courts in the position of having to decide, without clear direction from Parliament, what Parliament intended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.50.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.81.2", "colnum": "81", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "But he has just rebuked my hon. Friend for not being on the Committee upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I have not voted against any Amendments which I have moved, or in favour of which I have spoken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "e pointed out, notice of this Bill was given in the Queen's Speech. The proposition was discussed on the second day of the debate on the Address. The Bill was quickly available. It was at the request of the Opposition that the beginning of the Committee stage was deferred until after the Christmas Recess because the Opposition desired further time before the Money Resolution came before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ing to their Parliamentary duties. He pointed a very accusing finger at us for so doing. The worst thing that the right hon. Gentleman can do for this country, and for his own party is to keep on nagging at the businessmen—I beg hon. Members in their stupidity not to laugh so easily. It is upon the ability of some 50,000 of our ablest businessmen that the economic stability of the country depends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.112.3", "colnum": "112", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "h.\"] Oh, yes. Further, when the right hon. Gentleman sneered at us for not being here he should have remembered that on the Division to extend the time of the debate 277 hon. Members voted against him, and on his own side there were only 162 votes. The majority was 115. Where were the absentees? What were they doing? Before long hon. Members are going to demand higher salaries because they cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blenkinsop", "preceding_text": "ard to this measure tonight, why should the Government have introduced it? Many different suggestions have been put forward. One point I want to mention, which has not been raised so far, is that we know well enough there is strong pressure upon hon. Members opposite from landlord interests. We know very well that the landlords are dissatisfied with what has been given them so far. They want more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.149.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.155.5", "colnum": "155", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.155.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "sittings would dispose of another 10 Clauses. That statement, when he made it, was cheered by such hon. Members as were present at the time, showing that they absolutely agreed. If that is so, there has been a great deal of argument about very little, because there would be plenty of time to discuss Part II, to which the right hon. Gentleman and others naturally attach such very great importance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-22", "file": "debates1954-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "730c2ffb19f1466d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " now and then to discuss in considerable detail, and perhaps in full detail for all I know, all the outstanding matters. The hon. Member for Itchen (Mr. Morley) said that more time should be given in the Motion itself, but if the Opposition thought that, they might have put down an. Amendment as an alternative to 18th March. They left it at that, so I naturally assumed that the date was agreeable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-22a.159.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-23", "file": "debates1954-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fbf6badda1ceed9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-23a.194.7", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And Denmark?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "Could the Minister say whether Western Germany is a member of the Consultative Group?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-23a.194.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-23", "file": "debates1954-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fbf6badda1ceed9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-23a.209.4", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BUILDING SOCIETY, MANCHESTER (REGISTRAR'S INQUIRIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that follows at all. If an hon. Member encloses a letter to a Minister I think the usual course is to ask his permission before the letter is sent on, but I think it depends, as hon. Members will agree, on the style of case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-23a.209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-23", "file": "debates1954-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fbf6badda1ceed9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-23a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH INDUSTRIES FAIR (GUARANTEES AND GRANTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the best.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shepherd", "preceding_text": "et more results from it. I have been very much disappointed in the Fair in recent years. It has not had the same appeal, and I am anxious that it should revive its appeal. My hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) spoke of fairs in other countries. There is no doubt that they have succeeded in imparting a glamour which we in this country have not succeeded in imparting to our Fair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-23a.251.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-23", "file": "debates1954-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fbf6badda1ceed9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-23a.330.3", "colnum": "330", "heading": "BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Bill to leave out Clause 31.\"— [ Mr. S. O. Davies .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-23a.330.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-23", "file": "debates1954-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "fbf6badda1ceed9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-23a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "MEDICAL AUXILIARIES (REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The Minister is proposing to call them \"physiotherapists\" after three months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-23a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-24", "file": "debates1954-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2715f56c61e35651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-24a.391.6", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"British Guiana? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I think I can assure the hon. Member, on the first part of his supplementary question, that I am unaware of any occasion when I have personally violated the Charter of Human Rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-24a.391.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-24", "file": "debates1954-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2715f56c61e35651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-24a.462.5", "colnum": "462", "heading": "FOREIGN MINISTERS' CONFERENCE, BERLIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "That is an interpretation of the old words, \"If you do not labour, neither shall you eat.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-24a.462.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-24", "file": "debates1954-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "2715f56c61e35651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-24a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "FOREIGN MINISTERS' CONFERENCE, BERLIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "ontribute her vast energy and resources to defending instead of to destroying Western civilisation. The hon. Member for Nelson and Colne interrupted my right hon. Friend when he was dealing with this question of neutralisation. He asked how my right hon. Friend could now be opposed to the neutralisation of Germany when Potsdam laid down that Germany should be completely disarmed and demilitarised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-24a.522.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-25", "file": "debates1954-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "88fc0949c683b3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.544.6", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "As I told my hon. and gallant Friend last week, that method is satisfactory only on flat ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.544.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-25", "file": "debates1954-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "88fc0949c683b3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.549.3", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Is it not true that the Departmental regulations issued by the Ministry have been adopted by the Irish authorities in both Northern and Southern Ireland, and that therefore it is surely their responsibility to see that these regulations are enforced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.549.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-25", "file": "debates1954-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "88fc0949c683b3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.551.0", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Is not my right hon. Friend aware that answers similar to his were given by most of his predecessors for many years, and that public opinion is considerably disturbed because this traffic is repugnant to the feelings of this country? Will he not take further steps?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.551.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-25", "file": "debates1954-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "88fc0949c683b3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.551.4", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I am not satisfied that the Irish Government have not been paying attention to these regulations up till now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.551.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-02-25", "file": "debates1954-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "88fc0949c683b3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Lord John Hope", "preceding_text": "m on any terms, and who are now claiming, as I thought they might, that the vote of the Labour Party in the second division on 1st August was a vote for their policy—which it was not. These Members are now openly hoping that no German contingents can be embodied until the autumn of 1953. as they contend that, once western Germany joins the western defensive system, Europe will become another Korea", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-25", "file": "debates1954-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "88fc0949c683b3dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.684.1", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "t before the conference as a fake. Then, the hon. Member for Devonport (Mr. Foot), while the conference was still going on, wrote in a weekly paper that, in short the Eden Plan was fraudulent from the start. That merited what it got, which was a special mention in \"Pravda. I felt a little worried when I first read that, until I read the opinion of the hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Grossman).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-25a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-26", "file": "debates1954-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0fe2d47f0b9090c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-26a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFETY IN EMPLOYMENT (INSPECTION AND SAFETY ORGANISATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finch", "preceding_text": "This is now becoming a gramophone record about what the Labour Government should have done. They were in power for only six years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-26a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-26", "file": "debates1954-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0fe2d47f0b9090c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-26a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFETY IN EMPLOYMENT (INSPECTION AND SAFETY ORGANISATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "ccident has taken place. The law places responsibility on the management. All the Factories Acts and legislation of a similar nature have imposed upon the employer the statutory duty to provide for the safety and welfare of his employees, and I am sure that that is right. I believe that the proposal in the Bill, which appears to involve some sort of independent organisation alongside the employer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-26a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-26", "file": "debates1954-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0fe2d47f0b9090c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-26a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFETY IN EMPLOYMENT (INSPECTION AND SAFETY ORGANISATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCorquodale", "preceding_text": "ay after a heavy week in Parliament is really a suitable vehicle for endeavouring to change the whole system of the great mass of the community. I may be wrong. I do not wish to be pontifical about this matter, but I believe that Private Bill legislation—as against Motions and the like—should deal with specific individual subjects which might otherwise be lost in the spate of national legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-26a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-26", "file": "debates1954-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0fe2d47f0b9090c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-26a.740.3", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFETY IN EMPLOYMENT (INSPECTION AND SAFETY ORGANISATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "year-olds towered above me. I realised that if I wanted the best work and the greatest co-operation from the boys, I could not get it by physical force, in spite of having boxing champions in my family. I had to get it another way. As a responsible teacher I had to do the best by the pupil that I could. I got good work and good results by placing responsibilities on the pupils whom I was teaching.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-26a.740.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-02-26", "file": "debates1954-02-26a.xml", "sha256": "0fe2d47f0b9090c7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-26a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SAFETY IN EMPLOYMENT (INSPECTION AND SAFETY ORGANISATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": " the voluntary principle would have no more part in this vast field of safety and the prevention of accidents. I do not know what we would do with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. I suppose it would have a field in road safety, and so on. I do hope that nothing that any hon. Member has said was meant to imply that that Society and other voluntary bodies are not doing useful work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-02-26a.762.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.814.1", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH SHIPPING (U.S.A. SECURITY REGULATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am sure it will be, but I do not see how that is even remotely concerned with the answer I have just given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.834.6", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman explain whether he is now misleading his hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr. Nabarro) or me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.834.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What has it to do with the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Robertson", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman the Member for Vauxhall (Mr. G. R. Strauss) will forgive me if I do not follow his line of argument. I can safely leave him to my right hon. Friend the Lord Privy Seal and to other of my hon. Friends on this side of the House. I rise to deal with a constituency aspect of this matter, which is of importance, and I make no apology for concentrating on my own constituency in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": " in \"The Times\" in recent months adver- tisements from contractors who have built atomic plants, eminent firms, but they were rather inclined to give one the impression that they have the monopoly of this work. I know that is not true. The Minister of Works made a reference to my persistent efforts for the Highlands. Some of my hon. and right hon. Friends may think that I have been too persistent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": "ted with the Prime Minister. Perhaps I might paraphrase a popular radio signature tune of a few years ago that we all used to enjoy, and say of the present plan, that it is Lord Cherwell's pride and joy; it's Mrs. Lindemarm's boy, It's that man again. His influence upon the Prime Minister, not only in this field but in many other fields is, in the view of many people, very harmful to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will not have omitted to remember that the Lord President of the Council will be dealing with matters of the utmost secrecy in that part of his work, and will have to have that power, which would not be given to any other Minister in that connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " the way of research—particularly radium, cobalt and the rest of it—for dealing with cancer. It has nothing to do with transference to the Authority at all, and I never said that it had. The hon. Member is much too quick. He asked why we were introducing this Bill, and said that it was not at all clear. I would refer him and the House, once again, to the White Paper which was produced in November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.968.3", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE UNITS (DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard Johnson", "preceding_text": "h their attempted sales. I entirely agree with the Transport Commission when it says that in connection with disposals up to date it has meticulously observed the letter of the Transport Act, 1953. That is the statement which it made, and which was published in \"The Times\" of 26th February. I want to submit that it is not sufficient for the Commission meticulously to observe the letter of the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.968.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.969.9", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE UNITS (DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Names?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "mission and the Disposal Board to date. That is the fantastically unbusinesslike and sloppy way in which these units have been lotted together. One example I have is of a unit where the vehicles were offered with property. The vehicles were so large and high that they would not go into the garages offered with the lot. Of all the fantastic absurdities, to offer vehicles of such a size and height —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.969.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.969.9", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE UNITS (DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "operty. The vehicles were so large and high that they would not go into the garages offered with the lot. Of all the fantastic absurdities, to offer vehicles of such a size and height —[HON MEMBERS: \"Names?\"] I will not give any names because the reject lists are now coming out, and if I gave names I venture to suggest that these persons who tender again may well find their tenders rejected again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.969.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE UNITS (DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is in the Act.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": " same or less weight unladen. In the lists which have been opened there are a number of vehicles for which bids must be made although they do not carry A licences. I do not think the Minister is aware that, for example, a 1942 Bedford 5-ton lorry cannot be replaced by a 1953 Bedford 5-ton lorry because the 1953 vehicle has an unladen weight of 5 cwt. more. I say that the Minister should recommend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.973.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-01", "file": "debates1954-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "6d6593d739f10003", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD HAULAGE UNITS (DISPOSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "With respect, I did not suggest that. I suggested that the Minister should make recommendations to the licensing authority and not to the board. It is well known that the Minister has complete power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-01a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "TELEVISION LICENCE FEE (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Subsidising advertisting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " on this side of the House are anxious to avoid the advertising element—would the Government consider whether a loan should not be raised for the development period of television, in the new circumstances? Finally, what are the Government doing by seizing part of the licence revenue contributed by the public in order to hand it over to the new corporation, which will be concerned with advertising?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "TELEVISION LICENCE FEE (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reducing advertisers' expenses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "It is very difficult to understand the attitude of the party opposite. They wished the second corporation to be financed entirely out of revenue. Now that we are giving the corporation a small part of it, hon. Members opposite object. This money will not go; to the advertising companies at all. It will go to the corporation and will be spent by the corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1015.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1027.0", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Another?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "nd purposes, have the 9½ per cent, cut restored to them. Legislation will be introduced, at the same time, to amend Section 2 of the Pensions (Increase) Act, 1944, under which the scheme was applied to retired civil servants. The House will not expect me to go into further details at this stage. It is a matter which is very complicated. A White Paper will be available at five o'clock today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1025.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman can take it that the Estimates have allowed for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Another White Paper.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Birch", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. and learned Gentleman can take it that the Estimates have allowed for it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I beg pardon, I withdraw that. I will write to the right hon. and learned Gentleman, or let him know before the end of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1038.7", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "If there had been an inquiry we should have determined, in the light of our commitments and in view of technical considerations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1038.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1038.7", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "d been an inquiry we should have been able to determine, in the light of our commitments and in view of technical considerations, whether it was possible to reduce the period, to begin with, by three months or four months, as the Belgians did. Do not forget that the Belgians reduced their 24 months' period by four months. Or we might have discovered that it was possible to reduce it by six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1038.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1040.3", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "We will come to that later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1040.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "add that I think we have far too many commitments. Too many burdens are imposed on the United Kingdom. We are all over the place, in Hong Kong, Malaya, Egypt, the Mediterranean and Africa. I doubt whether it as possible for the United Kingdom to sustain such a burden very much longer. I say that quite honestly, although at the same time I Would not wish in any way to weaken our defensive position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1043.3", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " concentrating more and more on the non-conventional weapons, on the basis of non-conventional strategy, and less on conventional strategy and manpower. Indeed they have reduced the size of their forces from 3,700,000 to 3 million. Of course, comparable with this country that is a very much larger reduction than will take place in the United Kingdom. Over and above that there have been reductions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1043.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Strachey", "preceding_text": "from a defence effort at that level? It is true that one can exaggerate the economic consequences for any particular year, and that nothing very terrible is likely to happen to the economy of the country in this particular year with a defence expenditure of £1,640 million. I am not suggesting that it would. If we have the degree of luck which the present Government have had in the economic sphere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor do they.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "That may be so, but I cannot rely on the Government's inability to spend the amount they say they will spend. We do not know what they spent last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strachey", "preceding_text": "ional Service without a reduction in some major commitment, such as Egypt. That is precisely the position which I am taking today. It is not an easy thing to reduce the period of National Service even when we have made a cut in the commitments, but it is possible, it can be done and, for the reasons which I am giving, I think it must be done. I am afraid that I must run through this summary again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1061.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "preceding_text": ". The only way—and I think that this is becoming generally agreed—for the West to make sure of having a long-term deterrent force is to have some German divisions armed. That was why the Labour Government and the Labour Party agreed to the principle of German rearmament in 1950. That is why the Labour Party decided last week that any further delay in providing a German contribution would be wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "The general effect in the long term would be that we should probably need fewer men and less expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "together internationally so that one nation will prevent another from trying to promote aggressive designs. There was a conference on the Continent last week-end at which 10 Socialist Parties, against one, voted for the European Defence Community. That is conclusive evidence that Socialists on the Continent are in favour of the idea. The only party voting against it was the German Socialist Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "preceding_text": "What is that?\" He said, \"That is a Government poster,\" to which I replied, \"But this is a Labour club.\" He said, \"Yes, but it is a good Government poster; it shows how the money goes.\" It showed, among other things, that out of every £1 in taxation 10s. 4d. went to pay for past and future wars. We had some discussion about it in the club. I do not claim to be a military strategist or an economist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh golly!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "preceding_text": "hat sort of thing again. Our commitments will be maintained and expanded as long as there are troops to do the job. If the period of National Service is reduced the commitments must also be reduced. That is the way I should take. Take away the potential for doing the damage and the damage will not be done. National Service is wasteful; it cannot produce the best soldiers, and it demoralises youth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Now we all know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "A glacis is a fiat area before an old-fashioned fortress. There was a flat part, then the water in the moat and then the wall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"It is £16½ million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I will take the £16 million and the £120 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. I will take the £16 million and the £120 million— [Hon. MEMBERS: \"It is £16½ million.\"]—I thought I took it from the hon. Gentleman's own figures and that it was £16 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ised at the unusually strong and remarkably disproportionate language which the Leader of the Opposition used in referring to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence. I am sure that the last thing in the world he wished was to be discourteous to the House. He has been here nearly three years in office and has never had an opportunity of presenting the Defence Estimates to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ing, but that it was very carefully considered, that it slipped through quite placidly, with none of those shocks and disturbances which sometimes attend ordeals of this kind. The first two charges of the Amendment are very vague and general. It is only on the issue of two years' service that a precise challenge is made. It is made; it is not an inquiry, it is a challenge on the length of service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-02", "file": "debates1954-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "ea24d114b064ef6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "re working successfully for the consolidation of the peace of the world would, in my judgment, be seriously injured by the appearance of weakness or division in Britain. If there be a force in Russia which believes that the Stalin policy was mistaken, or at least overdone, they would be stultified if it could be said to them, \"See there the British are breaking up under the strain of re-armament.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-02a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1162.6", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MALAYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "General Templer, of course, always has in mind the reduction of food prices, but he has not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1162.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "This airman was, as I said, selected for cook assistant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1184.11", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS:\" Oh \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman can send me any evidence in support of what he says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1184.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1188.2", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "KHARTOUM (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend if he will seriously consider the wisdom of proceeding with negotiations over the Egyptian situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1193.5", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "INLAND TELEGRAMS (TARIFF INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "That is quite different from what the right hon. Member said earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1193.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "INLAND TELEGRAMS (TARIFF INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which question?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "As its name implies, the Advisory Council is advisory. This question was put to the Advisory Council and the Council agreed that it was a necessary step.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1202.2", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are correct.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Gaitskell", "preceding_text": " have been the following figures. Wage rates rose from June, 1947, to November, 1951, by 26 per cent, and prices still by 29 per cent., but from November, 1951, wage rates rose not by 13 per cent, but by just under 10 per cent.—only a fraction greater than the rise in retail prices of 9 per cent. So I think we should be clear that the figures produced by the Minister rest simply on that one month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "That, of course, was what the original answer was meant to convey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is still true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "That, of course, was what the original answer was meant to convey. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"] But if the month of November had been taken it would have thrown a different light on the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1211.1", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "These are the figures for 1953, taken from the E.C.E. Report which came out a few days ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. R. Maudling)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. R. Maudling)", "preceding_text": "ar. The transferable rate is 2·75 dollars, not 2·40. Commodity shunting has practically disappeared. The strength of sterling, and the confidence of this country and of the world in sterling, is utterly different from what it was in 1951. That is not a minor achievement or a minor contribution to the standard of living of everyone employed in British industry. Let us not forget that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1235.3", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "mum efficiency and at the lowest possible cost. Surely that is what we should be concentrating upon. Our problem is how to produce more and do it more efficiently. We should work together to see that costs and prices do not get out of line, instead of doing what right hon. and hon. Members opposite are doing, trying to exacerbate existing grievances and creating grievances where they do not exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1262.3", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Thank goodness.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "ter prosperity and happiness of the people in British industry. Though I say that I am not a gay optimist, it occurs to me that we may unknowingly be on the threshold of a half-century of greater growth in prosperity than our country has ever known. We look back on the Victorian era as though it were something of the distant past which may never come again. It certainly will not easily come again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1288.2", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An increase.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turner-Samuels", "preceding_text": "is no doubt that our main industry has stubbornly and unjustly refused a wage claim when justice required that it should be allowed. I am referring to the engineers' case. Everything there was taken into consideration by the tribunal—costs, wages, overtime, the effect on the export trade —they were all considered, and in the face of them all it was held that the industry could afford the increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ote Mr. Wincott, writing in the \"Financial Times\" about the \"silent revolution\" which was mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for Newton. If articles like that are going round, it must be expected that some of our people will read them and draw their own conclusions from them. I now turn to the question of the cost of living. It is nonsense, of course, to seek to prove too much from any figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " food has been rising steeply and continuously. One has only to read the reply given by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food in this House on 21st October, 1953, in which he instanced meat, milk, bacon, butter, cheese, margarine, lard, cooking fats, sugar and tea, and gave figures of substantial rises for the whole lot of them. Really, hon. Members cannot go on, in the face of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-03", "file": "debates1954-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "b8c10ab4f98cf559", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1307.1", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I mentioned bacon in my list. Eggs have certainly gone down, but I gave the last answer which I had. I am not cooking it up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-03a.1307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1385.3", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "hon. members: \"He is ill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "2nd Tactical Air Force on the Continent … is completing its re-equipment with Venom fighter/ground attack aircraft in place of Vampires. … Transport Command is carrying on its diverse tasks. Last year, when I referred to the Under-Secretary's failure to be more forthcoming, the hon. and gallant Member for Macclesfield (Air Commodore Harvey), who I am sorry to see is not in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1392.4", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "We were thrilled to hear about the tremendous progress that is being made in the supply of equipment and aircraft. The story that we heard made us feel more secure than we have felt in that direction for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1392.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1441.2", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "hon. members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "The small American detachment there come under the Air Ministry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1441.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1461.0", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Williams", "preceding_text": "In view of the very great care with which my hon. Friend has gone into the whole question, and the consideration which he has given to it, for which we are extremely grateful, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1542.0", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sensible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am glad that we are having some tremors, because I did not notice them in certain speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1542.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Chesterton.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "ally and deeply wrong in voting £500 million for aircraft that are mostly destructive without making some sort of examination of the vital principle of the Christian religion. I do not pretend to be a very orthodox churchgoing Christian, but I believe in the Christian ethic. When people say to me that Christianity has never worked, I retort with Bernard Shaw that Christianity has never been tried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1560.3", "colnum": "1560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "HON. members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "We agree with him absolutely about the importance of air power and the efforts which must be made to bring the strength and efficiency of the Royal Air Force up to even higher levels than we have already achieved. May I also say, on behalf of my hon. Friends, how much we regret that illness has prevented my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Air Commodore Harvey) from being here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1560.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1598.1", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "using the words \"full committee stage.\" It was wrong of me to have attributed them to you. However, if I may respectfully say so, it does not make any difference to the argument I am presenting, because I think that when I used the words, \"full Committee stage,\" they were foolish words. If, on the Committee stage, these matters are subject to the Guillotine we will have no decision on these Votes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "use, proved that the Leader of the House was not aware of the full significance of the action he was taking. Therefore, I do not think it is right to condemn him. I think he made a genuine mistake because he was told by someone that after Vote A it was normal practice to move to report Progress and that to do so would not deprive the House of its rights.- But since he has heard the real situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman has only just come in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Charles. I have listened attentively to this speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-04", "file": "debates1954-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "1e0d558223d7689c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1629.2", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Idiotic\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "y are occasions for the 16-inch guns of the Front Bench, and for the \"pom-poms\" of the back benches, which are trained on different targets with the object of getting assistance for their constituents. The issue which has caused all this trouble, and given the Lord Privy Seal an excuse for keeping the Committee here for two and a half hours without giving us a chance to discuss the Estimates, is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-04a.1629.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-05", "file": "debates1954-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "fed60507e7724c22", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-05a.1704.2", "colnum": "1704", "heading": "COMPANY DIVIDENDS (LIMITATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brook", "preceding_text": "an economic exercise to say that what is gained on the swings is lost on the roundabouts, but what the working-class housewife is interested in is what she has to buy in the shops out of the money her husband earns, things she has to buy every week, and she knows that they have gone up steeply in price. The things that have come down in price are, on the whole, the things she does not need to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-05a.1704.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1732.5", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question No. 35 has been answered.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of the patent inability of the Minister to know what he is talking about, I wish to give notice that I shall raise this matter of liquid milk consumption on the Adjournment at the earliest possible moment. Question No. 35.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1732.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1733.5", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "This increase in the price of cooking fat will have practically no effect at all on the price of bread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1733.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1738.5", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — UNITED NATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "preceding_text": "With permission, I will answer this and Question No. 56 together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1738.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1758.1", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "rred in the course of his speech to a number of changes which he thought we had suddenly introduced into the civil aviation policy of the Government as time went on. Afraid to destroy the Corporations, and not anxious to have another very controversial Transport Bill and remove the monopoly, we were, he suggested, attempting to do by erosion what we were not brave enough to do by direction action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1764.7", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " when he interrupts me. But if he will wait he will find that I shall deal with what I think worries him most, which is the Airwork story. I was coming to the particular point which he made in the concluding part of his speech. I made it clear in 1952 that the Corporations will not maintain aircraft specifically for charter work but they are free to take up charter work which only they can fulfil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1764.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1772.1", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "leman also asked what conversations I had had with the chairman of B.O.A.C. in regard to talks with Airwork. I did not in any way say that if B.O.A.C. put in an application to the AT.A.C, I would use some backstairs influence to see that it was not granted I pointed out the desirability, in everybody's interest, of some co-operative agreement between the Corporation and a large private undertaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Public assistance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "Minister of Supply, ever ready wherever good work had to be pushed forward. The heartbreaks and frustration are forgotten and the company look forward at last with new confidence, born of security and certainty, determined to fulfil the high hopes placed in them by the Government who promised a fortnight ago to give them technical backing and financial assistance to develop this admirable machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1809.1", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "t present—but I wish to ask my right hon. Friend the Minister and his colleague to consider the matter. Renfrew can never expand. It is \"cabined, cribbed and confined\" by the built-up area all around it and can never be completely safe for landing and taking off. In my opinion, it must inevitably close and come to an end as an airfield and the traffic, such as it is, be diverted back to Prestwick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1810.3", "colnum": "1810", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Moore", "preceding_text": "to a decision between the conflicting claims of agriculture, national or private airfields, and housing. It must be very hard to decide when one claim is more important, more demanding and must be more quickly satisfied than another, but I should like my right hon. Friend to bear this question in mind. As he knows, the soil of Ayrshire is probably the richest in Scotland, or in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1810.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1823.2", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reader Harris", "preceding_text": "I would not have intervened had it not been that this nuisance has become much worse in the last few weeks. During the last 10 days I have received letters signed by many constituents, all on one piece of paper saying, Can you please do something about this? Those letters contain a lot of strong words, such as, The Government wants us to work harder. How the hell can we if we do not get the sleep?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1823.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1823.3", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It does not work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "that the major nuisances should be either removed or alleviated as much as possible. A number of steps have been taken in this direction. Certain runways which run close to the houses have been restricted to certain hours of the day. We are grateful for that, and for the efforts which the Ministry has made by experimenting with an acoustic wall, which has already cost, I believe, at least £40,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1854.3", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I forget who it was. It is clear that this new facility has been sanctioned to allow private enterprise to provide more effective competition with the Corporations. If the Government believe in competition, let it be competition, and let it be fair and equal between the parties. It is said that the traffic load of B.O.A.C. in British East Africa has not gone down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "ch the right hon. Gentleman made and, second, I should like to embody them in what I say at the end of my speech. But I cannot allow to go without a mention the reference which the right hon. Gentleman made to the bias of my right hon. Friend. I have worked under him now for only a year, but I assure the House—and I hope every hon. Member will take this assurance—that if ever anyone had less bias—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1864.0", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": " civil aviation. The suggestion that my right hon. Friend only took the advice of the A.T.A.C. when it suited his own political interests is something which I believe the right hon. Member will not wish to pursue when he reads what he said in HANSARD, and certainly it is entirely and absolutely untrue. The right hon. Gentleman must remember that we won the last Election on Conservative principles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1864.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1875.1", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUTTER AND CHEESE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not care.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": " butter without saying something about what will happen to margarine. The popular newspapers have expressed fears about what will happen with regard to both butter and margarine. Questions were put to the Minister about margarine this afternoon, but he could not say precisely to what extent the price is likely to rise. I submit that he does not know what will be the future price of butter, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1875.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1884.4", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUTTER AND CHEESE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about the take-up?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "the actual stocks figures. I am making the point that in 1950 and 1951 there was a distribution of butter and cheese in excess of the butter and cheese which was obtainable in this country from home producers and abroad under the Labour Government, and the stocks position is now in a much more satisfactory position. I want now to pass on to the hon. Member for Ealing, North, for I have a contrary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1884.5", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUTTER AND CHEESE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "y, like everyone else, must be chary of offering a prophecy as to what will happen. I put it no higher than that; I am sure that the Labour Party would be embarrassed by a reference to 8d., 9d. or 10d. for eggs. I am not suggesting that the same will happen; in all charitableness, I am suggesting a little caution on all sides. It is impossible to judge what the demand will be following decontrol.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1884.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-08", "file": "debates1954-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "eb00df791e30a345", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUTTER AND CHEESE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: What about the election promises?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": ", between April, 1947, and May, 1951, there was an increase of 1s. 2d. a lb., and that was then related to the subsidy ceiling imposed by the party opposite. This is not the first time that there has been an increase for the purpose of keeping within the subsidy ceiling. It is the first time there has been an increase which so eliminates the subsidies as to make decontrol and derationing possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-08a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1913.5", "colnum": "1913", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer it now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " the day the decision on an important matter like this. May I refer to the right hon. Gentleman's intervention and simply say that I was trying to give precedence to the number of Questions which I took together. I knew that the hon. Member for Itchen (Mr. Morley) was one of those whose questions had not yet been put, and therefore I was endeavouring to answer those questions before answering him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1913.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1938.1", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "EQUAL PAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "name equal pay date? Yes. Here surely is a case for retrospective legislation if ever there was one. Women workers have been underpaid by millions of pounds during the last 34 years owing to the delay in establishing the principle of equal pay, and some restitution would surely be justified. This, however, is not an occasion for vindictive legislation. Women will forgive the past, they usually do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1938.1", "colnum": "1938", "heading": "EQUAL PAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Houghton", "preceding_text": "It may, however, be prudent to underwrite the risk of neglect or default on the part of Her Majesty's Government. The time for Motions of reaffirmation of the principle of equal pay is past. The House will now, I feel sure, resolve to embody its will in an Act of Parliament. This Bill will do that without recriminations or reproach to this Government or to the last. It is a Bill to set women free.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1954.1", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " I have some hon. Friends sitting behind me who are ready to stab me in the back at any moment, and the First Lord had better keep a close watch to his rear, too, because there are plenty of hon. Gentlemen sitting on the benches behind him who simply do not accept the phrase that he used, late in his speech, about the safety of these islands' supplies and those of Europe resting on the Royal Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1954.1", "colnum": "1954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ser. That is true, within limits. The aircraft carrier is able to search a much wider area much more rapidly than any one cruiser can do, but I ask the First Lord to note that, at the moment, the aircraft carrier itself is under challenge and under very heavy fire from a great many senior officers in the Royal Air Force—mostly retired, but nevertheless officers of very great weight and experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1991.3", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "£1,000 on their son's education. Reverting to the hon. Gentleman's point about Lord Nelson, if he went before a selection committee today for entry as a cadet he would not stand an earthly chance of succeeding. It has been claimed in debates in this House that the early entry scheme and special entry scheme have produced a good type of officer. The question I want to pose is: a good type for what?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1991.3", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "est ranks in their professions, in the academic, mechanical, engineering and other fields. Yet this is the \"ruddy hooey\" that they concentrate on. I speak from knowledge on this subject, from my own experience as a candidate and as a training officer for commissioned officer candidates in H.M.S. \"Hood,\" then the largest warship in the world. What happened when I went before my own selection board?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1991.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1996.1", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "erthed in commercial docks on the north-east coast and in South Wales. In Hull, admittedly, there is no place for berthing them. However, one hears of the First Lord's visiting other ports and other localities. Why not Hull, the third port of the country? The Home Secretary was supposed to come up to my constituency recently and open a factory. For reasons I need not discuss here, he did not come.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.1996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2009.0", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "I shall. I have three sentences to say in dealing with this subject. The first is that concessions relating to initial allowances and percentages of depreciation are not to be despised, but they do not touch the root of the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2010.5", "colnum": "2010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Williams", "preceding_text": "shipbuilding industry is under a disadvantage which should not be placed upon its back. I understand quite well that the call for plates has increased enormously of late, but it is not sufficient merely to say that this position does exist, and do nothing about it. There is still the need for some attention by the steel mills themselves to the demands of the shipbuilding yards and repairing yards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2010.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2051.3", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "I was trying to argue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2123.1", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Nally", "preceding_text": "om now by what points were made by the hon. Member for Gillingham or what points were made by my hon. Friend. The only thing that people will be impressed by is that Her Majesty's House of Commons, discussing serious Service Estimates on matters vital to the future of the country, was discussing them at half-past one and a quarter to two in the morning, when the majority of us are not at our best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2128.3", "colnum": "2128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "tuity when it first became due, the Treasury says that he cannot have the other £25 a year. I do not see why the Treasury should make a profit of £50 out of this man, and others like him, because he drew his gratuity on the day that he was entitled to draw it, and I hope the First Lord will deliver some sort of corrective in the right place at the Treasury. I think this man has been robbed of £50—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2176.3", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Commander Noble", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Noble", "preceding_text": " important contributions have been made. My right hon. Friend has announced some important changes and right hon. and hon. Gentlemen have raised many issues, from the future of the Navy to details of day-to-day life afloat. I have tried to answer some of them. The hon. Member for Dunbartonshire, East (Mr. Bence) talked about the Royal Yacht. He made allegations which he said were based on hearsay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2176.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-09", "file": "debates1954-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "be50f0e309e75400", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2196.2", "colnum": "2196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-09a.2196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-10", "file": "debates1954-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cc3bb3c7c017b175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-10a.2234.3", "colnum": "2234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the sums received to date reflect very adequately the arrangements made as between a willing buyer and a willing seller—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-10a.2234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-10", "file": "debates1954-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cc3bb3c7c017b175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-10a.2239.4", "colnum": "2239", "heading": "THEATRICAL COMPANIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is tripe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodrow Wyatt", "preceding_text": " have worth-while plays to perform cannot secure the services of a prominent actor, because Mr. Beaumont has already bought him for his profit making company or for his non-profit making company. That is why there are four who are perhaps the most distinguished actors on the British stage today all performing at the Haymarket in a play which is not educational and, in my opinion, is not very good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-10a.2239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-10", "file": "debates1954-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cc3bb3c7c017b175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-10a.2269.0", "colnum": "2269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS (INCREASE) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Glenvil Hall", "preceding_text": "This is the point which some of us endeavoured to ventilate earlier when, unfortunately, owing to another engagement, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Blackburn, West (Mr. Assheton) could not be here. I referred to it as a tapering arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-10a.2269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-10", "file": "debates1954-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "cc3bb3c7c017b175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-10a.2359.8", "colnum": "2359", "heading": "CITY OF LONDON (VARIOUS POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Marples", "preceding_text": "It is well known that the miners receive a free issue of coal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-10a.2359.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2417.5", "colnum": "2417", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "May I ask my right hon. Friend if he is aware that the North-East coast makes a magnificent contribution to the general welfare and productive effort of the nation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2417.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2443.5", "colnum": "2443", "heading": "BRITISH HONDURAS (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "The House knows that the right hon. Gentleman is away, but there is, of course, the joint collective responsibility of the Cabinet. It is clear that a statement on a matter of great importance such as this should be made by the Prime Minister or any other Cabinet Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2443.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2444.2", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "BRITISH HONDURAS (CONSTITUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Understand?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The only newspaper report which I read did not state that the Constitution was suspended. As I say, I understand that the Constitution has not been suspended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2444.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2450.6", "colnum": "2450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Estimates, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for War (Mr. Antony Head)", "preceding_text": "ational Service. I assure hon. Members of that. We have combed the Army's tail and we are in a transitional stage so that, as far as there is any resemblance to tails, we are going away from the squirrel and getting much nearer to the guinea pig. It is our policy to continue in that direction. Nevertheless, there are still hon. Members who say that the period of National Service should be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2450.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2463.1", "colnum": "2463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Army Estimates, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "es the strain in money and in wastage of manpower. We send overseas every week three-quarters of a million letters. The size of this Army is immense. My hon. Friend the Member for East Aberdeenshire (Sir R. Boothby) is not here, but I thought I would mention for his benefit that annually we send overseas 9 million kippers. The enemy of economy today is the dispersal of the Army all over the globe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2511.5", "colnum": "2511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "gular Army is being corroded by this commitment. This evening, we must consider this business of Suez from the strictly military point of view. Some people talk as though this base we are holding had always been there. Actually we have only had this base in the form in which it now is since 1947. Before the war, what did we have in Egypt? We had 10,000 men in Egypt, 4,000 of them in the Suez area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2511.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2514.3", "colnum": "2514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "uite wrong. It is the longest, softest under-belly I have seen in my life. It may be wonderful from the point of view of dispersal under atom bombing, but this dispersal is ideal for sabotage, for pilfering, for guerrilla warfare. How anyone can think it is strategically vital to maintain this long, soft under-belly with thousands of guards strung out on the perimeters of the depots I do not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2514.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2518.1", "colnum": "2518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Charles Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the House has enjoyed the latest endeavour of the hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) to interpret what we think and what we are out for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2518.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2519.1", "colnum": "2519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "For the troops there —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2519.3", "colnum": "2519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "ff came pouring back. It was then sent to India and it came back again to the Canal Zone. Very much the same thing happened in India. Material was moved to the Mackinnon Road, on which we spent millions of pounds. That policy, too, was reversed and it came back to the Canal Zone. When trouble arose at Abadan, right hon. Gentlemen opposite did not face up to it, as we thought they should have done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2527.1", "colnum": "2527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tut, tut.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "our on the part of some British troops towards the North Egyptian native population. I have seen this from the point of view of a private soldier. In the capital city of Egypt I have seen Egyptian civilians being interrogated in British barracks by British soldiers and beaten up in a way which is nearly on a par with the bestial reports that we have been reading about in the recent trial in Kenya.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2549.5", "colnum": "2549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I have only a limited amount of time, so I cannot give way. This applies not only to men but to installations. Before the war we had only one brigade based on Moascar and another in Cairo, but long before the outbreak of war we were outside the Treaty area. It is beyond doubt, on the evidence of the 1938 Army Estimates themselves, that we stood in breach of the 1936 Treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2549.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2551.1", "colnum": "2551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get them out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "There is somewhere about £250 million worth of stores there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2553.1", "colnum": "2553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Head", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Head", "preceding_text": "e remark. I feel that one can say that the conditions which obtain in the Canal Zone today, while far from ideal, are extra ordinarily healthy. I am not saying that they are very comfortable, but the general health of the troops there is very good. Although I have not an intimate knowledge of this subject, I would say that the troops are very much less troubled by bugs than was the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2580.0", "colnum": "2580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"it is in order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": "I intervene with great diffidence, but may I put it to the hon. Member that his eloquent speech would be more suitable during the foreign affairs or a defence debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2580.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2582.1", "colnum": "2582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier O. L. Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "ould wait until a country is overrun and then seek a political solution? What political solution would get the Russians out of Czechoslovakia or Poland now that those countries have been overrun and are behind the Iron Curtain? Does he seriously suggest that the situation in Malaya would not have been desperate if we had not sent troops there and kept them there until the situation was cleared up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2620.1", "colnum": "2620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Quarter-bloke? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simmons", "preceding_text": "They conform to an authority outside this country. I am concerned with Nonconformists generally, and want to know whether they are adequately represented in the Chaplains Department. There are only two staff chaplains and one chief staff chaplain in addition to the three head boys I have just mentioned. In the \"Quarter-bloke's\" department there are 331 staff officers and 196 clerks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2636.3", "colnum": "2636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Only nine? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "of older people. It is a matter of pride for all of us, whether we take the view of my hon. Friend the Member for Ladywood (Mr. Yates) or that of the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for the Isle of Ely, whom I nearly called the hon. Member for Aldershot, that over She scattered centres of the world where the British \"Tommy\" is to be found nine dimes out of ten he is a credit to the homeland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2678.1", "colnum": "2678", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Birmingham, not Beachy Head.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delargy", "preceding_text": "Yes. I am quoting a poem by G. K. Chesterton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2682.1", "colnum": "2682", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "ll the subjects one could think of. I shall try to keep strictly to Army matters and to speak mainly about the creation of a strategic reserve which has been mentioned so often in this debate. That brings me to the subject of Suez, but I shall not say very much about it. I had hoped to be called to speak on the Amendment, but if I say too much about the Suez Canal Zone now I shall be out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2698.3", "colnum": "2698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He wants to see his ' mum.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "al of my friends were forced into the Forces by that experience. And I say that the Army today is getting a substantial proportion of its Regulars by the same economic pressure. I am quite sure that when a boy is called up for the Army it decides, if he lives in Glasgow, that the best place to send him is Penzance, and if he comes from London it sends him anywhere north of Edinburgh. What happens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2701.1", "colnum": "2701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "Not enough. I think that he gets two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2703.1", "colnum": "2703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is no comparison.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Fernyhough", "preceding_text": " is on a par with the totalitarianism of Hitler or of Stalin. That is the sort of thing they said. In Korea, the armistice was delayed for months because we insisted that it was against our morals, and against our principles, to send back to North Korea those Korean prisoners who did not want to go back. If it is wrong to send a Chinese prisoner where he does not want to go because he faces death—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2704.1", "colnum": "2704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Malaya? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "ference between them and a Chinese or a North Korean prisoner. Many of the young men in the forces know that conscription was brought about because of the danger of a war with Russia. But where do they find themselves? In Egypt, in Kenya, in Bermuda, in British Guiana, and maybe in British Honduras shortly. They do not understand how they are waging a struggle against Communism in those countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2705.3", "colnum": "2705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I believe that the greatest danger to world peace is world poverty. Hungry men are angry men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2705.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2706.3", "colnum": "2706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": " am sorry that you have made that Ruling, Mr. Speaker. A harsher ruling has been applied to me than has been applied to many hon. Gentlemen to whom I have sat and listened throughout the night. I made notes of what was said. The Government should take a leaf out of the former Government's book. We got out of India, and because we did that we lost 400 million enemies and gained 400 million friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2706.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2707.3", "colnum": "2707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State informed me that the War Office would take the matter up with the contractors, because the Department wanted reimbursing. I presumed that the Secretary of State would write to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2707.3", "colnum": "2707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Making sandwiches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "ause the Department wanted reimbursing. I presumed that the Secretary of State would write to me. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why? \"] Because I had raised the question. The meat had to be dumped because it was bad. The meat was ordered by the last Government, I know, but it was marked, \"To be consumed before 1951.\" What were the brigadiers and generals responsible for those stocks doing to allow it to go bad?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2707.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2708.4", "colnum": "2708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "That is what I expected the right hon. Gentleman would tell me. It was the loss of public money which caused me concern. I was glad that he was taking the matter up with the contractors and I should be delighted to hear that he obtained reimbursement of the money from the contractors who supplied the meat. I understand that it was supplied by private enterprise. I will conclude with this comment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2708.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2714.1", "colnum": "2714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sloppy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "Yes. The people of two generations cannot be asked to sacrifice themselves in order to overthrow German imperialism and then be asked to agree to restore it; the right hon. Gentleman cannot ask the sons of the women who lost their husbands in the first and second world wars and the sons of the men who were maimed and killed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2725.1", "colnum": "2725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "f the authorities, that has presented a most difficult problem. We are now told that: Lord Waverley\"— that gentleman always willing to accept the chairmanship of committees— has generously accepted the chairmanship of a committee to review the arrangements for providing medical and dental services for the Armed Services at home and abroad, in peace and war. The point I should like to make is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2729.4", "colnum": "2729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "bleau for the use of British Service personnel. It looks at if we are going to save some money at any rate by not constructing a new hospital. I see that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Defence has now arrived. We now have almost the whole bag of tricks here—and what a bag of tricks they are. The point I am making is this. What is good for us in Paris is good for us in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2729.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2732.1", "colnum": "2732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "s terminal grant of £275 to which he had looked forward would not be paid to him. It is true that he did not complete the 22 years' service which would have enabled him to receive the higher rate of pension and terminal grant. He was misled because he had either to have served continuously for 21 years or have had a total of 22 years' completed service. There is no point in going into the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2770.3", "colnum": "2770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ridge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Like Horatius, I cannot stand on the bridge alone, Mr. Speaker, so I must execute another retreat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2785.3", "colnum": "2785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has now repeated exactly what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2808.3", "colnum": "2808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CANAL ZONE (CONDITIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hutchison", "preceding_text": "I thought my right hon. Friend answered that straight away from this Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-03-11", "file": "debates1954-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1a8bd6fe4acd7727", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2827.2", "colnum": "2827", "heading": "ARMY ESTIMATES. 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": " to between the two Front Benches. Those who have taken part in this debate have staked a claim for the rights of Members on both sides of the House, which is more important than some of these nice little arrangements which may prevent discussion. If the Leader of the House had been as considerate in his tone a few nights ago as he has been now, a good deal of this trouble could have been avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-03-11a.2827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.11.10", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Since land taken for opencast mining is restored to agriculture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.11.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.51.3", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "I must ask the Prime Minister on what grounds he says we abandoned any claim. We did not abandon the claim; we made the claim, and I believe that the United States Administration were fully prepared to carry it out. They were prevented by the action of the Senate, which passed the MacMahon Act, which prevented them giving the information. We did not abandon anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.51.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.51.4", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They abandoned the agreement, or took action which enabled the agreement to be destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.51.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.51.4", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They abandoned the agreement, or took action which enabled the agreement to be destroyed. [ Interruption ] Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite must not show so much uneasiness in the matter. I feel they have no ground for reproaching their successors with the consequences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.51.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am coming to that aspect a little later, but I will transpose what I have to say to meet the wish of the House. I return to the Quebec Agreement as a whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.52.1", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"So is McCarthy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "as a whole—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]. Why do not hon. Gentlemen opposite listen? Why do they say \"No,\" especially when they do not know what I am coming to? When I visited the United States two years ago, I showed this document that will soon be in the Vote Office to Senator MacMahon, whom I had known for some time, and who was a man of the highest honour and outstanding patriotism to his own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.52.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What? Did not intend what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not intend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not intend —[HON. MEMBERS: \"What? Did not intend what?\"] I did not intend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.53.2", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did. I made reference to it in a former Parliament. I hesitated to make a public disclosure as a private person, but I did communicate with Mr. Truman on the subject, and he strongly appealed to me not to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.53.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am of opinion that the agreement should have been circulated in confidential circles in the first instance to the American Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.54.4", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think it would have been an obvious precaution to confront them with that agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.54.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.54.5", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "By whom?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think it would have been an obvious precaution to confront them with that agreement. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] Anyhow, they were not confronted with it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.54.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.55.1", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "we abandoned control over the military in exchange for advantages on the industrial side. We never had advantages on the industrial side. There was no bargain of that sort. I think it is a pity in this debate that all the time the right hon. Gentleman is attacking us for not developing atomic energy. I never mentioned the Quebec Agreement and giving away the industrial advantages. I was too loyal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.55.5", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. E. M. Braddock", "preceding_text": "No wonder we are in the mess we are in today. Why don't you get out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.55.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is the same thing with you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I therefore still feel that I was right in the choice which I made on the commercial aspect. The question which has long confronted us is our relations on this subject with the Government and peoples of the United States. Intimate talks, of course, there have been both with President Truman and President Eisenhower. Private conversation is one thing; formal action is another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.56.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You have said it.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sist from their series of experiments, even if we desired them to, or to supply us with secret information about them, and generally in the atomic sphere we have no means of compelling them, if their law forbids it. The President is seeking from Congress more latitude in the application of the MacMahon Act. I trust that nothing will be said in the House today which will arouse needless antagonism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.56.3", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have started it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—in Congress or throughout America. Nothing could be more disastrous to peace than a grave dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.56.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "—in Congress or throughout America. Nothing could be more disastrous to peace than a grave dispute—[An HON. MEMBER: \"You have started it.\"]—between Britain and the United States. I have not started it at all. I have obtained sanction to make public the solemn agreement made between President Roosevelt and myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.56.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.57.6", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d suggestions of challenging the United States \"to go it alone\" are given the slightest countenance. I can repeat that we have full confidence in the humanity and sense of fair play of the United States and of their desire to maintain the close and friendly relations with us which are the foundation of our alliance and of the security of the free world. I now come to the Motion on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.57.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.57.6", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d friendly relations with us which are the foundation of our alliance and of the security of the free world. I now come to the Motion on the Order Paper. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] I do not have to sit down until I choose to or the rules of order require it. We do not dissent in principle from the Motion which the Opposition have placed upon the Paper, and I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.57.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": " I know enough of Germany to say that even during the war, under a tight military dictatorship, there were many people who listened to broadcasts from London. Otherwise I assume that the B.B.C. would not have broadcast them. Who can say today how much the reception of ideas from this country helped to destroy the will of the German people to continue the fight? We do not know. We cannot assess it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "a profound common-sense, and a sense of negotiation. Whatever America or anybody else may think, if this House of Commons now demanded that a lead be given, neither America, France nor Russia could resist it. That demand should be made. If it is not, and if one of these wars comes along, there will not be enough lamp posts in Europe for those so-called statesmen and politicians who made the error.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stress", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Appalling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Barnett Stress", "preceding_text": " die sooner than to live in a broken-backed civilisation, such as we have heard so many horrifying things about. I am not anxious to pile horror on horror, or even to discuss the physical aspects of this matter. First, I am optimistic that if we have our way in Britain there will not be an atomic war and devastating bombs of this kind will not be used against human beings. Despite the unfortunate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor in yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Beswick) should have sought in his concluding remarks to attack my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. It may be that in the eyes and ears of hon. Gentlemen opposite my right hon. Friend's speech did not meet with approval.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Until today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. E. Cooper", "preceding_text": "is concluding remarks to attack my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. It may be that in the eyes and ears of hon. Gentlemen opposite my right hon. Friend's speech did not meet with approval. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nor in yours.\"] The plain fact remains that in this country and, indeed, in every country there is no personage other than my right hon. Friend who is capable of leading this world to peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ch tended to mar the whole tone of the debate for a mere matter of scoring party points. I do not propose to follow him in that manner. I feel sure that he himself already regrets that speech more than any other speech of his life. The facts are on record and it will be for the public today and for history afterwards to assess them at their true value. In the course of the Prime Minister's speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "n points about which there may still be misunderstanding. I am not sure that hon. Gentlemen opposite entirely understand—perhaps it is natural that they should not understand —how some of us on this side of the House have felt about the attacks, many of them very bitter personal attacks, which have been launched against the Prune Minister within this last week or two. I have a number of them here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": " I have a number of them here— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] Let us try to treat this calmly. Hon. Gentlemen should let me develop this. They have appeared in papers which support the Opposition. There is one, in particular, which lies under my hand now, although I could produce a score which I think would weary and disgust the House—it disgusts me. Here is one from the \"Daily Mirror\" of 1st April.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Perhaps hon. Gentlemen do not agree with the \"Daily Herald\" either. This is what they have been running: There has been shock and incredulity at the powerless state in which the Prime Minister sees the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "cerned. I am not arguing even whether the right hon. Gentleman's agreement was better—he may think it was— than the agreement we had. I am simply saying absolutely clearly—it cannot be challenged, and no one wishes to challenge it—that there was this precise undertaking about no use of the bomb against a third party without each other's consent and that that precise undertaking does not now exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ar as the exchange of information about making the atomic bomb is concerned, because the MacMahon Act severely restricted the amount of technical information which any American Government could give, even to friendly countries. That is perfectly true. What the right hon. Gentleman will also recall, I think, is that the later agreement did not renew the provision for consent in the use of the bomb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.145.3", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "is nothing new in what I am saying on that point. I am saying that if, on reflection, it is desired that this later agreement should be published, we are perfectly prepared to approach the United States and Canadian Governments, which are the Governments concerned, to seek their permission. But I really am entitled to say that we, having made this agreement, and the agreement having been changed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.145.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.146.2", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Nevertheless, it was an agreement between the President and the Prime Minister, just as this or any other agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-05", "file": "debates1954-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "fe9bdb3089c7180c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.147.1", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HYDROGEN BOMB", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No party politics.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "d Nations majority plan. It provided for international ownership, management and control of atomic energy. That plan was rejected by the Soviet Union on every occasion for years, and is still so rejected. The Soviet counter-proposals were effectively dealt with by the Baruch Atomic Energy Commission. I hope I shall not get into trouble again if I quote the Labour Party Handbook for 1945–50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-05a.147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-06", "file": "debates1954-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "99523b16a78abec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-06a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How much do you get?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": "nk I know as much about the inside of a factory as do both the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the hon. Member—indeed, far more than the hon. Member knows. The engineering businesses with which I am associated are all the time fighting to get the wherewithal with which to pay for new equipment. The hon. Member should look at the published accounts of the company of which I happen to be a director.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-06a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-06", "file": "debates1954-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "99523b16a78abec9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-06a.287.3", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Jennings", "preceding_text": "It is very strange that a man who probably earned £10 or £14 a week can go to the Assistance Board on the first three days when he is out of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-06a.287.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.361.3", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH HONDURAS INQUIRY (GOVERNMENT DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": " that the report the right hon. Gentleman now gives is so very satisfactory in comparison with the suspicions that he seemed to hold. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the People's United Party is not in any sense Communist, though it may be to some extent irresponsible? Is the right hon. Gentleman not agreeing that it is a good thing that the elections shall go on? What I am concerned about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Really.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ly to the better-off half of the community. Then there is the further bit of evidence that the rise in consumption was to a considerable extent associated with an increased expenditure on private motoring. I make no complaint about that. It is, however, another bit of evidence that the kind of people who got the most out of this were the people who could afford and enjoy the benefit of motor cars.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "nd the full benefit to the taxpayer of the changes in taxation which my right hon. Friend made last year come into their full effect in the current year. There fore, it is not really quite fair for the right hon. Member to say that the people of this country have received no rewards. He ignores the fact that the concessions made last year come into their full effect in this current financial year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ers of post-war credits ought to be done. I still more agree that in the case, say, of a man who went past the age of 65 and did not trouble to draw his post-war credit, and died before he had done so, there ought to be provision for the repayment of what he left in the hands of the Government interest-free—probably because he did not want to add to the troubles of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Assheton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nor the will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Assheton", "preceding_text": "ith the Chancellor in his anxiety to get this vast machine of expenditure under control. He told us yesterday of his desire to do so. We share his regret that, in spite of most gallant efforts, he has not yet succeeded. I believe that everyone in this Committee would recognise that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has the character for doing that job, but has he the machinery? I very much doubt it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearman", "preceding_text": "y shows as great an improvement in our position as any of us dared to hope, and I confess that it shows a greater improvement than I personally ventured to guess. It shows what an able Administration adopting a Conservative policy of turning trade back into private hands, of getting rid of restrictions, of opening the commodity markets, of abolishing controls on production and consumption, can do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "That is why my right hon. Friend, last year, made substantial Income Tax concessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.432.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "ts. Is that done in connection with defence? Hon. Members opposite are always asking how we can save money. I am sure there is no one who has served six years in the Army who does not know of the waste of money that goes on in the Services all the time. I argued during the debate on the Army Estimates for a Geddes Axe on the Army. That was a scandalous remark to make to many of the types opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Hirst", "preceding_text": "ardly. We are running into a serious position in regard to insurance and, though something has to be done, the solution is not easy to find. Surely there is nothing between us as regards old-age pensioners. I am sure that as soon as it is possible, and as soon as the information is available, my right hon. Friend will be ready to come to this House, even before another Budget if that is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "Without meaning to do so, perhaps I was slightly misleading. It is a matter which would have to be considered in the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "utput, though not interfering with supplies for inland consumption, limited the contribution which the coal industry was able to make to improving the balance of payments. The right hon. Member for Leeds, South ignored that point, which is the one factor in our domestic position which has baffled us. We have put more and more into the coal mining industry and it has produced less and less results.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-07", "file": "debates1954-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "b6b424dcd8cae287", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "act both sides of the Committee have to face is that if we are to continue our social services, if we are to maintain the Welfare State, and if we are also to carry a great arms burden, high taxation is inevitable, whichever party is in power. The only way it can be mitigated is by our working as hard as the Germans are working today or by our becoming much more machine minded, like the Americans.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-07a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-08", "file": "debates1954-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "93e0cf147300e4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I must disagree with that information. The right hon. Gentleman has been misinformed by his advisers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-08", "file": "debates1954-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "93e0cf147300e4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.521.1", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES (STANDING COMMISSION'S REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "f art. These were increased by 25 per cent. last year and will be increased by a further 20 per cent. all round, making an increase of 50 per cent. since 1952–53, in addition to special grants made from time to time. For example, a grant of £82,000 was made to the British Museum in 1951–52 towards the purchase of the Holkham Hall Library and the Helming-ham Hall \"Orosius\" Manuscript.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.521.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-08", "file": "debates1954-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "93e0cf147300e4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.528.6", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRET AGREEMENTS (PUBLICATION)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Almost the same thing.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dodds", "preceding_text": "Tory Party interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.528.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-08", "file": "debates1954-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "93e0cf147300e4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.529.4", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUEBEC AGREEMENT (HYDROGEN BOMB)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I certainly thought over my action before I took it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.529.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-08", "file": "debates1954-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "93e0cf147300e4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "ENTENTE CORDIALE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall have pleasure in conveying to the President of the National Assembly of France the Resolution of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-08", "file": "debates1954-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "93e0cf147300e4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "in other words, a good Budget is a dull Budget, which completes the circle. Then we had other descriptions. It was called a \"skinflint Budget\" and a \"drab Budget\" and I am sorry to say that I thought I heard the hon. Member for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish) describe it as a \"grab\" Budget. All these speeches have made no attempts at all to deal with the merits of the Budget. They were merely rehearsals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-08", "file": "debates1954-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "93e0cf147300e4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.580.3", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "t on your list, we will allow you to forgo your £8 18s. subsidy, to which at the moment you are committed for 60 years. We will relieve you of that contribution, and the Treasury will repay the £300.\" If the local authorities were given that relief, the repayment of the Treasury grant would then take 18 years instead of the 60 years to which the Treasury are now committed under the subsidy scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.580.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-08", "file": "debates1954-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "93e0cf147300e4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.614.3", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Waldron Smithers", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Member for Stechford (Mr. Roy Jenkins) will forgive me if I do not follow him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-08", "file": "debates1954-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "93e0cf147300e4e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Smithers", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Gentleman will not think it any discourtesy if I say that I must leave the Chamber because I have a very bad throat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-08a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-09", "file": "debates1954-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "87235a47118aed78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-09a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF BIRDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "nately does is to make a distinction which is unnatural to common law. As hon. Members are aware, in common law all animals are either domesticated or feral; that is to say, they are either tame or wild. The problem is that this Bill raises a new issue—the issue of a pigeon being able to be, from the point of view of legal status, both wild and tame, not as a matter of fact but as a matter of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-09a.719.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-09", "file": "debates1954-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "87235a47118aed78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-09a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF BIRDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I presume that the noble Lady has the leave of the House to make a second speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-09a.742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-12", "file": "debates1954-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ebefe6ff9a4184ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jay", "preceding_text": "rd increase in home food output is a necessary insurance against the vagaries of world prices and food supplies. What is likely to be the future of world prices? I must confess sometimes to feel-big that, in this matter of future world prices, as with the football pools, the small child sticking a pin in a bit of paper is as likely to get the right result as the economic Solomon in all his wisdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-12", "file": "debates1954-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ebefe6ff9a4184ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.850.1", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir E. Boyle", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Member has made that point. My answer is that no one complained last year that my right hon. Friend was giving too much away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.850.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-12", "file": "debates1954-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ebefe6ff9a4184ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.892.3", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "o hon. Members opposite that if they address their constituents as much as I do and try to make speeches based upon millions and basic years of their choice and things of that kind, their experience will probably be the experience which I have had. The audience begin looking at the clock, and then they are heard to say, \"It is only half an hour before the pubs shut; let us close down the meeting.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.892.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-12", "file": "debates1954-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ebefe6ff9a4184ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"At the right price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "dence that, if initiative is shown by manufacturers in this country, and if the Chancellor is liberal with dollars to enable it to be done, provided that there is first-class salesmanship and the right kind of merchandise, both in the United States and Canada, there is a vast field which can be covered, and that exports to the United States alone could be very much higher than they are at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-12", "file": "debates1954-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ebefe6ff9a4184ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": "t we cannot get goods at the right price unless we have the right machines in the workshops with which to produce them. I am sorry that the President of the Board of Trade does not possess a little more imagination. My hon. Friend the Member for Dartford (Mr. Dodds) suggested recently to the right hon. Gentleman that, as it looks as though the British Industries Fair will be a comparative failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-12", "file": "debates1954-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "ebefe6ff9a4184ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET PROPOSALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the Co-op.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Robens", "preceding_text": ". There are three, four or rive different companies which make detergents. If one goes shopping and buys a packet of detergent the price will be 1s. 11d.—no matter who manufactures it. Is it really a fact that four or five different firms all have the same overhead charges, the same degree of efficiency of management and all produce a detergent that works out at just 1s. 11d. for the same article?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-12a.899.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.933.6", "colnum": "933", "heading": "ENTENTE CORDIALE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "e a letter enclosing an extract from the report of the proceedings in the Assembly on the 8th of this month, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Entente Cordiale. I will place these documents in the Library of the House and circulate a translation of them in the OFFICIAL REPORT. I have written to the President expressing on behalf of the House our sincere thanks for this message of friendship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.933.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.934.11", "colnum": "934", "heading": "EXTRACT FROM THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF THURSDAY, 8THE APRIL, 1954.", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Applause from the left to the extreme right.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Fifty years after its birth the Entente Cordiale still retains its full value. Its example today is as cogent as ever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.934.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.939.4", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend welcome or deprecate questions about individual soldiers? Do they render any real service to the soldiers concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.940.7", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BRITISH ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was the last Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman tell us what examination is given to the men before they are allowed to drive a motor? I had the case of a man escaping from an asylum who was found driving.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.940.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.962.6", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "All that the Cabinet records show is that the words \"Tube Alloys\" were cut out in red ink and that was done by an official—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.962.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.967.2", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ted Kingdom. I am perfectly aware that when this question is raised in his own country Mr. Dulles will be criticised in the same terms as the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Bevan) has used about me. I should like to reply to certain questions he has asked. He is completely inaccurate if he suggests that there is a definite commitment to take certain action in certain sectors. That is not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "What we have done so far is to put the statement out at once, because I wished to give the House immediate information. Mr. Dulles was good enough to comply to enable me to do this even before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN CONVERSATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "ated corner of the Front Bench. We agreed to put out this statement before consultations took place with the French Government so that the House could have the fullest possible information. Clearly we must await the reaction of the other most interested countries before we turn to what should be the next steps which we should take. We are not issuing, and we do not issue, diktats to other nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "a local authority for a certificate of disrepair and that certificate is granted, the suspension of payment of the repairs increase is made retrospective to the date of the application. That is an improvement which was made upstairs. On the question of the repair element, \"The Times\" this morning said that nobody had yet produced a workable alternative to the Government's proposal in this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "bour he is most concerned, before he carries out the task, to assess what the return will be. Imagine a property owner being asked to build a house and not knowing what the return will be. He must be able to predict what return he will get. What hon. Gentleman would in normal life give his services to an employer, and say that he would leave it to an independent tribunal to say what he should get?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "I was dealing with a general proposition put forward by the hon. Member for Windsor. I am looking ahead, and I think that for those of us who may be in public life for the next 30 years or so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1023.3", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": " Member for Windsor. On this Bill we have made clear to what we are opposed and I certainly agree with my hon. Friend the Member for New-castle-upon-Tyne, East (Mr. Blenkinsop) that the increases should be related to the speech made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in introducing the Budget, and that is a valid argument against the Bill. I am glad to see the Parliamentary Secretary back with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1023.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "ers had brought to bear on the Minister and the Government between Second Reading and Recommittal and Report stage. We have to recognise that the party of which the Government are composed are like the Communist Party, in that they never publish their accounts. The Conservative Party finances are always mysterious, unlike those of the Liberal Party and the Labour Party, who publish their accounts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "otted out by the Conservatives to prevent social progress, owning one or two slum houses and having a very difficult job because they are not economic. There are also charitable trusts. But let us be frank about it: most slum landlords are loathsome creatures dealing in a most dreadful commodity. The Bill not only makes the owning of slum property respectable but makes it economically worth while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1027.1", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "ention of the hon. Member in my speech led me to think of his previous intervention, but I accept what he now says. Let me return to the point I was on. The large property-owning societies, associations and businesses have a considerable amount of slum property and \"The Economist\" made the point that they were going to be able to increase their dividends. It was not only said about slum landlords.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1027.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1027.4", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will recall that we had a whole discussion in Committee on site values. I hope that he will have a chance of following me and disposing of my argument, which is that the owners of slum property, like the owners of other property, will benefit under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": "quences of that situation, the Government have preferred once more in this instance to be doctrinaire. They have insisted upon hanging on to the conceptions of private ownership. We on this side would have saved the nation large sums of money and large sums of capital investment by making available a better use of existing accommodation by handing over all this small property to local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "rnment or from the rates—houses and flats for letting and conversions of old houses for that purpose. This is not a question of jumping the queue, as has been said on so many occasions; this is a question of people being allowed and encouraged to get into the right queue, not forced, as many people of better means are today in effect, to sponge upon their neighbours by living in subsidised houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-13", "file": "debates1954-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "98f78c5f58a2f23a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1092.2", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "give the opportunity to the people who should be living in unsubsidised houses to do so, and I believe we could do it without any fall in the total of houses built for letting purposes, as we have proved in our policy to date. This, of course, reveals the whole difference in philosophy between the two sides of the House. It runs very deep. Hon. Members opposite believe in control for its own sake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-13a.1092.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-14", "file": "debates1954-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "949d527bc9c0b118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1152.2", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "eman has expressly explained this as being not a matter of Government business but a matter for the House of Commons. It is surely up to the Leader of the House, who has responsibility to the House besides being a member of the Government, to see that the House of Commons discusses a matter which, as the Prime Minister has rightly said, is a House of Commons matter—the Report of its own Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-14", "file": "debates1954-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "949d527bc9c0b118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "EASTER ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reader Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reader Harris", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly) seems to be suffering under some sort of delusion, which is that the Foreign Secretary only goes to Geneva—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-14", "file": "debates1954-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "949d527bc9c0b118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1158.0", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "EASTER ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reader Harris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reader Harris", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Donnelly) seems to be suffering under some sort of delusion, which is that the Foreign Secretary only goes to Geneva—[ Interruption. ] I do not know whether the Labour Party think they are the only people entitled to speak. Other Members can raise points of order besides the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1158.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-14", "file": "debates1954-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "949d527bc9c0b118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1158.2", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "EASTER ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "The point of order I am trying to put is that the hon. Member for Pembroke seems to be under the delusion that the Foreign Secretary goes to Geneva only if he has the permission of the hon. Member for Pembroke. I am sure that is not the case. Surely the hon. Member is not entitled to ask these questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1158.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-14", "file": "debates1954-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "949d527bc9c0b118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "EASTER ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "preceding_text": "I do not want to speak for more than three or four minutes, but I am rather reluctant that the House should go away on holiday until something really definite has been done for the old-age pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-14", "file": "debates1954-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "949d527bc9c0b118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1160.0", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "EASTER ADJOURNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For the old-age pensioners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Simmons", "preceding_text": "njoy their holiday, because they have not the wherewithal to do so. The House should think twice before going away and should ask the Government to give very serious consideration to making an immediate statement. There were certain indications in the speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that something might be done, but we want to be quite sure that something will be done for the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1160.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-14", "file": "debates1954-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "949d527bc9c0b118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "TELEGRAPH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ary thing for the purpose of bringing the Act into operation. Unless we apply the law, as the side-note of Section 8 suggests, there will be nothing to operate upon, and therefore it is just as necessary a part of bringing the Act into operation as anything else. What the two right hon. Gentlemen are trying to do is to make it impossible for Parliament to carry out the statute which it has passed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1260.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-14", "file": "debates1954-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "949d527bc9c0b118", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1260.5", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "TELEGRAPH BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "With great respect, I think that I should deal with that. The intention, as already stated, is that all these three Orders are to come into operation simultaneously for the purpose of bringing the Act into operation, and thus one is just as essential as the other. Therefore, if one looks at the matter from any common sense point of view and not from the severely legalistic point of view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-14a.1260.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-27", "file": "debates1954-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "80500e7171a6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1461.7", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOLS (SIZE OF CLASSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Morley (Southampton, Itchen)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Morley (Southampton, Itchen)", "preceding_text": "hrough their taxes, for secondary education for other children which their own children have no opportunity of receiving. Those children can receive secondary education only if the reorganisation of schools in the rural areas is carried out and new modern secondary schools are built; but the Minister in her Circular prevented the rural areas from building schools for the purpose of reorganisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1461.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-27", "file": "debates1954-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "80500e7171a6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1498.2", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOLS (SIZE OF CLASSES)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "at the money is used in the best possible way. I do not think that that can be done unless we examine the whole system of how that burden is borne. The second thing follows from the first. My hon. Friend the Member for Devizes mentioned it in passing, and it is something about which I have spoken in the House before. There is no doubt that among many people education is not a very popular subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-27", "file": "debates1954-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "80500e7171a6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1498.2", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOLS (SIZE OF CLASSES)", "cue_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Maitland", "preceding_text": "we always are in these debates, but this is a subject in which we are all together. Let there be no mistake about that. The previous Government did their best, under difficult economic circumstances, to fulfil the 1944 Act. This Government have carried on that work and they have done it extremely well. They have done much better than would hon. Gentlemen opposite had they been in power since 1952—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-27", "file": "debates1954-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "80500e7171a6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1514.5", "colnum": "1514", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOLS (SIZE OF CLASSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " do not mind if there is no change in the size of classes for the next three or four years. But I know very well that they and other hon. Members opposite will be going round the country from now on saying that it is only this beastly Tory Government which prevents an immediate reduction in the size of classes. They cannot have it both ways; they have been trying to have it both ways far too long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1514.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-27", "file": "debates1954-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "80500e7171a6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOLS (SIZE OF CLASSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "hat is the supply of teachers. In spite of the fact that during the last year or so, the recruitment of teachers has improved, for the first time since the war, and of the fact that training colleges are now full, the recruiting position remains parlous. The wastage is still greater each year than the level at which the training colleges are turning out teachers, and still remains at 3,000 a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-27", "file": "debates1954-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "80500e7171a6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1527.1", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOLS (SIZE OF CLASSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"Net.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "war, and of the fact that training colleges are now full, the recruiting position remains parlous. The wastage is still greater each year than the level at which the training colleges are turning out teachers, and still remains at 3,000 a year. [HON. MEMBERS. \"No.\"] If my figures are wrong, I am open to correction, but is it not the case that last year the increase was 5,900 and the wastage 8,000?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-27", "file": "debates1954-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "80500e7171a6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOLS (SIZE OF CLASSES)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn)", "preceding_text": "y notes. That was about classes over 60. I have looked at the figures, and they are these. Of the primary classes there were, on our latest returns, about 12. Two of them are not really classes, for they were assembled only for registration. Eight of them were taught by more than one teacher, and two of them have been reduced since the figures were taken. So we may say there are none or nearly so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-27", "file": "debates1954-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "80500e7171a6e3ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1572.1", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOLS (SIZE OF CLASSES)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Plot?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education (Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn)", "preceding_text": "s here and there. But I think it would be inappropriate on this occasion not to say how much the whole House was both illumined and moved by the speech of the hon. Member for Itchen (Mr. Morley). I myself did not agree with everything that he said, and I think some of the things he said were dubious even from his own point of view. But before I come to him perhaps I might mention one or two plots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-27a.1572.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-28", "file": "debates1954-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "bd3c163e7cab02d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1600.5", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Greenwood", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister of State also proposing to ban the recent report of the Parliamentary delegation to Kenya which takes the same view as many sections of this book?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1600.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-28", "file": "debates1954-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "bd3c163e7cab02d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1602.3", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEM BERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "That is a point which really arises on the following Question. As the Parliamentary Secretary informed the House a fortnight ago, we are in constant and full consultation with the Ship Repairers Council to see if we can get these prices down, but I must say that the Royal dockyards have had some advantage in that they were able to buy materials in bulk earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-28", "file": "debates1954-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "bd3c163e7cab02d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1632.1", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTERHOUSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "heme of rationing and allocation. Stock will not be bought and allocated by one central authority, as it has been over the last 14 years, but by private traders buying competitively, and for this reason it is absolutely necessary to have available considerably more premises than the 600 or so the Ministry has used in England and in Wales. The situation in Scotland, by the way, is rather different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-28", "file": "debates1954-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "bd3c163e7cab02d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTERHOUSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "preceding_text": "think, that the slaughterhouses which are in operation today, especially in Scotland, are most unhygienic and require reconstruction. The county of Midlothian alone has a population of 100,000, and one old-fashioned slaughterhouse, in Dalkeith, is not sufficient to meet our requirements. The nearest slaughterhouse to Dalkeith is 30 miles east or 30 miles south. The method of transporting the meat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-28", "file": "debates1954-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "bd3c163e7cab02d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTERHOUSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "preceding_text": " the assistance of their Welsh and Irish allies, to inflict upon Scotland Measures which practically make chaos of the local government economy there; just as they did, for example, quite recently in the case of the Housing Repairs and Rents Bill. If the Government had kept the Irish and the Welsh away we should have beaten the Government completely, and that Bill would never have got any further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-28", "file": "debates1954-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "bd3c163e7cab02d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1662.5", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTERHOUSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There will be chaos.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": "I think we are nearly all agreed on that point, and are agreed that if it is not passed quickly there is no doubt that the chaos in the marketing of meat after the beginning of July will be very great indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1662.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-28", "file": "debates1954-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "bd3c163e7cab02d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1698.3", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTERHOUSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "He was disturbed about the constructive line adopted by his right hon. Friend, and he determined \"to have a go.\" The line he took was: \"The Bill is unnecessary and it only becomes necessary because of decontrol.\" He went on to say that circumstances should never have arisen which made this Bill necessary. The circumstances are a sufficient supply of meat enabling rationing to be brought to an end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-28", "file": "debates1954-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "bd3c163e7cab02d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1698.3", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SLAUGHTERHOUSES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "in this way. Perhaps it will touch a chord of memory on the past of hon. Members. In the second half of last year it was remarkably difficult to sustain a system of rationing and distribution devised for a period of scarcity. It became almost unworkable in that period of plenty, and, whichever Government bad been in office in the second half of last year, it would have experienced that difficulty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-28a.1698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1760.6", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Support Prices (Quantification)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. De la Bère", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. De la Bère", "preceding_text": "Could we have an assurance that there will be no further alterations in 1954? Does not my right hon. Friend realise that the greatest difficulty is uncertainty and delay? Does he not realise that there is no real stability as long as alterations are made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1760.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1781.8", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "A lemon?", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Henry Strauss)", "preceding_text": "Since the answer to the first part of the Question contains a table of figures, I will, with permission, circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT. The answer to the second part of the Question is 11.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1781.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1788.2", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": " points with the right hon. Gentleman? Surely it is the normal case, as my right hon. Friend has said, that when a Select Committee of this House reports, it is competent for the House to deal with the report, and if there is a request from a substantial body of hon. Members that it should be discussed, it is normally—I should have thought universally—the case that the Government provide the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1788.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1789.3", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "Might I ask the right hon. Gentleman a question on the matter raised by my two right hon. Friends? This Committee has reported unanimously and therefore that in itself ought to make the matter a House of Commons one rather than to put the emphasis, as the right hon. Gentleman is doing in a partisan way, on the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(AUTHORITY FOR PRODUCING THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB.)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Works (Sir David Eccles)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Works (Sir David Eccles)", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could answer this point. Of course the hydrogen bomb is really only an arrangement in another form of more or less the same materials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(AUTHORITY FOR PRODUCING THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB.)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Works (Sir David Eccles)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Works (Sir David Eccles)", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could answer this point. Of course the hydrogen bomb is really only an arrangement in another form of more or less the same materials. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am afraid it is so; I wish it was not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1819.4", "colnum": "1819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(AUTHORITY FOR PRODUCING THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Mr. Malenkov said that, but the other speaker—I forget who it was, whether it was Mr. Kruschev or one of the other people—did not make that distinction clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1819.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1823.3", "colnum": "1823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(AUTHORITY FOR PRODUCING THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Germans?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": "ations of the world which may be outside the democracies? I would rather pursue this course: that we ought to bring all atomic development, including the hydrogen bomb, under the control of the United Nations, and we can do this by announcing to the United Nations and all the other nations of the world that we have given up secrecy—that we are going to let every body know how to make these things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1823.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1833.0", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(AUTHORITY FOR PRODUCING THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Edelman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Edelman", "preceding_text": "lready that the hydrogen bomb, from its radioactive properties, can produce sterility. It may be capable of sterilising a whole generation. Those are moral considerations which certainly should be in our minds when considering this weapon. But this new Clause would have the final effect of limiting our strength when we go to an international conference to consider the banning of the hydrogen bomb.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1834.0", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(AUTHORITY FOR PRODUCING THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"We hope not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": " secure more information for the people than has hitherto been given. I do not see how this new Clause, if it were incorporated in the Bill, would have any effect upon the word production of hydrogen bombs. We are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. We are in the United Nations, and I understand from recent conversations that this country may be committed to some form of Asian pact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1835.3", "colnum": "1835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(AUTHORITY FOR PRODUCING THERMO-NUCLEAR BOMB.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"The Government would fall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I am glad that one of our most able and brilliant legal minds has explained in legal terms exactly what I understood in my simple mind. I want to come back to the point that, assuming for the moment the Government sought the permission of the House, and also assuming that the Clause had been accepted, the Government did not receive such permission from the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1862.4", "colnum": "1862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(PROVISIONS AS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "ablished civil servant We accept in that case because redundancy usually is not of a man's own making. He cannot help it. It therefore seems right that we should do our very best for him. We cannot, however, carry over that concession to the man who is dismissed on security grounds. There are two reasons for that. First, in nearly every case the reason for the man's dismissal is of his own making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1862.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1864.5", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(PROVISIONS AS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He would be dismissed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "se of the character or of the habits of an employee, and it is really not reasonable that that sort of case should go to the Lord President. The third example, of which, I think, there are likely to be more instances than of the others, is that of a man who may be inefficient in carrying out specific security duties. We may have a night watchman who from time to time is caught snoozing on the job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1864.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1864.5", "colnum": "1864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(PROVISIONS AS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "re instances than of the others, is that of a man who may be inefficient in carrying out specific security duties. We may have a night watchman who from time to time is caught snoozing on the job. [HON. MEMBERS: \"He would be dismissed.\"] He would be dismissed on security grounds and his case would have to go to the Lord President if we accepted the right hon. Gentleman's Amendment to my Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1864.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-04-29", "file": "debates1954-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "51de0b2b8095d153", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1876.2", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(PROVISIONS AS TO THE UNITED KINGDOM ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "ectionable, and I do not like them, but suppose that we were to leave out the words and do what the right hon. Gentleman's Amendment would do and say that all cases of dismissal on grounds of national security must go to the Lord President. We should be embracing a whole series of cases which do not go to the \"Three wise men\" in the Civil Service and which would not go to them under the Authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-04-29a.1876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-03", "file": "debates1954-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "8a49c02446cd914e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-03a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. R. A. Butler)", "preceding_text": "h (Mr. Jay), I want to refer to an important development in our national affairs which will probably be welcome on all sides of the House. That is, that our gold and dollar reserves have shown during the month through which we have just passed a very considerable increase, amounting to no less than 135 million dollars. This brings our gold and dollar reserves over the £1,000 million sterling mark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-03a.146.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.200.5", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "But is my right hon. Friend aware that there is great anxiety amongst all parties in this House as to what actually were the terms of this agreement? Is it not a fact that, under the terms of the agreement, this country gave up the right to veto the use of the atomic bomb by the United States of America and that there fore our finger is no longer on the safety catch?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.200.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.200.7", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "Just two more little teasers, if I may, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.200.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.201.7", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Put a Question down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I do not know why the Prime Minister should be so upset by this question. There is a great deal of speculation in the Press about an extremely important matter, namely, the part that may be played by the Asian members of the Commonwealth in the settlement of the Indo-China dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.201.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "l, the boys want a Bill, so let us cough up and give them a Bill\"; and they have come along with all these complications and uncertainties and all the difficulties which I have indicated to the Committee. Anyone would think that it was a Socialist resolution of the 1880s instead of a modern party Bill. These were the sorts of things I used to draft when I was young, but I would not draft them now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.204.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.209.0", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "uite clear that he and his colleagues are saying that if this matter is started, it will be stopped if and when they return to office. They may have some ambitions about the next General Election, provided they can establish authority in their own party. But in the meantime it is perfectly obvious that if we get this matter started before the next General Election no party will be able to stop it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": "ion, which took place on a closed circuit to six schools in the county of Middlesex. After that experiment took place, there was an investigation and a report by the School Broadcasting Council, and also by the Education Committee of Middlesex County Council, and both these bodies produced reports saying that the experiments had proved to them the educational value of a schools television service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "herefore, I do not think it helps very much if hon. Members who have not been following the debate raise points by interruptions, but, for the sake of the hon. and gallant Gentleman, I will briefly repeat the point I was making. It is, quite simply, that the B.B.C. has an obvious duty to provide a schools television service, and that, in order to do that, it will need to make use of studio space —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "nterested. The B.B.C. will have to use studio space, producing and technical staff and equipment and also financial resources to provide a schools television service. It will not be able to do so if it is to be faced with a challenge from commercial television for the next two years. I am not saying that only on my own authority, but on the authority of the British Broadcasting Corporation itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is rather silly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "We have already spent far too long up this rather silly Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.232.8", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "preceding_text": "ique, and they should have time to understand what the thing is all about. In that way we should defeat the machinations of some of these gentlemen who have been going round the country talking as though they are on the inside of the track. One of these gentlemen has been going around saying that he has got the monopoly for a certain part of the country. He has been making speeches to that effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.232.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about ' Impossible '?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": " the Title says that the Bill seeks to make provision for television broadcasting services in addition to those provided by the British Broadcasting Corporation. There is no word there suggesting independence. It might be rather more accurate if this new service were called the \"Additional Television Authority,\" or, if one wishes to keep the letters \"I.T.A.\", the \"Irrelevant Television Authority.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "dment is that we think \"Independent Television Authority\" is a better title than \"Commercial Television Authority.\" We are all agreed that since it was founded the British Broadcasting Corporation has been independent. Its independence is a matter of pride and admiration to us all. But the B.B.C. has 30 years' tradition behind it. Everyone inside and outside this country knows of its independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "ht that on every argument put forward on each side of the Committee the conclusion must be forced that this title, \"Independent Television Authority,\" is a wrong one and that the Amendment ought to be accepted. Having heard the views which have been put forward in good humour, and as everyone has approached the problem realistically—I do not think there has been any waste of words about the matter", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I doubt it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "n to do it … and that, I estimate, to be within a year of the passing of this Bill.\"— [OFFICIAL REPORT, 25th March, 1954; Vol. 525 c. 1554.] It really is too bad for the hon. Member for Hendon, North to say now that that cannot be done. Why did he not rebuke the Assistant Postmaster-General at the time? The hon. Gentleman has technical knowledge, but so has the Assistant Postmaster-General.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "ope is a satisfactory answer when the time comes. There is one other point about the Amendment which has not been mentioned by right hon. and hon. Members opposite. As I understand, this Amendment would do something more than hold the Authority down to a rigid time-table. It would specify that what it did not do in the first year it could not do at all. I do not know whether that was meant or not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "tary is making. My hon. Friend put a question to him. My com plaint is that the right hon. and learned Gentleman did not answer, \"I will listen with care to the debate, including the arguments employed by the hon. Member, but, subject to the debate, our pre sent intention is not to accept the Amendment.\" He made a categorical statement that the Government were not prepared to accept the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-04", "file": "debates1954-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "11e3850604241b00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "happened is disputed by hon. Members opposite, it will be possibly the case that one or two of my hon. Friends may wish to call their own memory to mind and say what they think happened. I do not want to keep this debate going for an undue length of time, and, indeed. I was instrumental in bringing the first debate to an end before it need have come to an end, because we do not want to waste time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-04a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.352.8", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Langford-Holt", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"It is not humorous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Langford-Holt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. While I appreciate the humour of the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.352.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.375.7", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Capable?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "hat, either deliberately or accidentally, the I.T.A. programmes will be markedly worse than those we have experienced in television controlled by the B.B.C. and that great confusion will arise. Let me put an example which is not so hypothetical as it may sound. The B.B.C. has employed some really capable doctors over a number of years, including the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.375.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.375.7", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Mouthwash.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "at programme, \"You should pay money for this article because it contains chlorophyll, and chlorophyll is good for you.\" The B.B.C. doctor may say, \"Do not take any notice of this nonsense. Chlorophyll is only a colouring. It has no real value.\" The American Medical Association has denounced the claims of the makers and advertisers of chlorophyll as being so much \"eyewash,\" if I may use that term —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.375.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "That is a point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.380.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.383.5", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Plummer", "preceding_text": "ly declining audience interest in many of the quiz programmes. Only one of them is an outstanding success today— \"What's my Line?\"; and in another year that will go to the ash-can, as others have gone before it, because this medium is a tremendous devourer of programmes, artists and writers. I have dealt so far with the importance of keeping the programmes up to the very high quality of the B.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.396.1", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "preceding_text": "tter, that is supposed somehow or other to make it sacred. I understood a passage in the letter which the hon. and learned Member for Gloucester (Mr. Turner-Samuels) read as being to the effect, \"If you get a good programme it is interrupted every few minutes by an advertisement.\" Is that really true? Is every programme interrupted every few minutes? If one believes that one will believe anything.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.396.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.415.4", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Margaret Herbison", "preceding_text": "ng wicked. But it is not only members of the Labour Party who have spoken in such terms. Commercial television has been opposed not only by members of the political party, but by many leading members of the churches and other organisations. That is why I support this group of Amendments. If we could get the Minister to accept every one of these Amendments, the Bill would in reality come to nought.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Lady will allow me to deal with the points that have been raised. She was frank enough to say, and obviously everyone else who did not say it meant it, that these Amendments were not consistent with the life of the Bill, and in that sense the Amendments have been moved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.428.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.433.4", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "But is not the right hon. Gentleman going to prohibit the I.T.A. from transmitting two commercial programmes in London?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.433.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait a bit.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " (Lady Tweedsmuir)? Surely, the Assistant Postmaster-General remembers the Question which she put to him before the Coronation, insisting that Aberdeen must get a transmitter. Where is the noble Lady today? Is she appealing for the people of Aberdeen? Where are all the other hon. Members from the North-East of England, who used to put the same question? They have been conspicuous by their silence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thirty-five per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "—I was going to say into any saloon in New York, but I am sure that he would not do that—he could walk into many private homes in New York and have the choice of seven channels. The hon. Member for Kemptown knows the answer—there is no mystery about it. It is because it is profitable to run seven services in New York and not profitable to run them for 65 per cent. of the rest of the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.469.3", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ly. If he had bothered to read the Amendment he would have seen—could I have the hon. Gentleman's attention? He has asked me a number of questions, and when I am answering perhaps he will do me the honour to listen to my explanation. If he will read the Amendment, he will see that there need not necessarily be 10, but that if the Postmaster-General otherwise determines, he shall inform Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.469.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I said originally that I did not think that the Amendment was of any substance and I hoped, therefore, that the House would accept it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It means nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "substance and I hoped, therefore, that the House would accept it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] The reason we accept it is that it fixes the number to start with at 10 and we think that a good thing, in view of the work which we know the Authority will have to do in the early stages. I do not know why hon. Gentlemen opposite should object to reference to Parliament. I should have thought they would have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.475.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.483.2", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "The Deputy-Chairman (Sir Rhys Hopkin Morris)", "preceding_text": "I have accepted the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is very hard, and that is why, I suspect, this Amendment has been moved. I cannot remember whether our Amendments or those of the Assistant Postmaster-General were put down first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "It is very hard, and that is why, I suspect, this Amendment has been moved. I cannot remember whether our Amendments or those of the Assistant Postmaster-General were put down first. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ours.\"] Ours were, and it is perfectly clear that this is some strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.505.2", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "ubmit that it is better to have this definition in the Bill than not to have it. Notwithstanding the wide definition originally in the Bill—and it would become wider still if the Amendment were accepted—there is something in having that definition there. For example, members of the public will know that a professional backer of horses could not be appointed to the Independent Television Authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.505.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only just.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "phrase which has many interpretations, and after two full days of debate, to be still on subsection (3) of Clause 1 cannot be said to represent over-repid progress. On the other hand, I think that it would be reasonable—if I may use the same adjective again—for the Committee to make a little more progress. After all, I must remind hon. Members, the House did decide to suspend the ten o'clock rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ho is leading for the Government on this Bill has not paid attention to Welsh opinion on the question of commercial television. Had he done so he would have realised the opinion in the Principality is universally against the Bill. Even today I received a letter from the New Wales Union, Undeb Cymru Fydd, which is the foremost cultural body there, asking me to protest forcibly against this Measure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.518.5", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Taylor", "preceding_text": "e other countries which make up this United Kingdom. Even with all the meticulous attention of the B.B.C. to avoid mistakes and to avoid arousing prejudices, there have been some pretty gruelling gaucheries that have offended our sentiments in Scotland more than once. Even today, the B.B.C. failed to give, in its news bulletin, the results of the Scottish municipal elections in any kind of detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.518.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "preceding_text": "or Welshman had to consult his compatriots he might find himself in some difficulty through being linked, so to speak, with one particular side. Seriously, though, I wonder if hon. Members have considered the limitations of their Amendments. They appear to me to work out in this way, that instead of the Postmaster-General having a general responsibility, he must only consult certain named persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.520.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And others.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Rankin", "preceding_text": "at the Postmaster-General should make such an appointment without consultation with the Secretary of State for Scotland? I am quite certain that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has no such intention. He will agree with me—he is nodding assent—that the intention here is that before this appointment affecting Scotland is made there will be consultations with the Secretary of State for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "To decide if there had been consultation or not, a court would have to require that communications between one Minister and another, which hon. Members know very well should be kept secret, should be produced in order to decide whether the communication was, in fact, only a communication, or a consultation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.540.0", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very nearly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "It cannot be said for a moment that the temper of the debate has not been good so far, and I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the pleasant way in which he has moved his Motion. I must admit that I detected in it a little of the technique which he used to employ, when he was in power, but, of course, he has not got that yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.540.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-05", "file": "debates1954-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6398da490c3e3f71", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "He does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-05a.540.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-06", "file": "debates1954-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "99285a624e06252e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.581.2", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ask \"Nye.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": "But if there is a difference, it is just as well to clear it up. It is not emphasising a difference to try to get rid of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-06", "file": "debates1954-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "99285a624e06252e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.586.10", "colnum": "586", "heading": "METROPOLITAN POLICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "th my late wife to the theatre. She said to me \"Well, we have shaken him off at last.\" I looked round in the interval, and I said to her \"Six seats back, in the corner, and you will see him.\" There was also the famous case of a Home Secretary, who shall be nameless, who had received a complaint about an actress who was appearing with too little clothing. He decided to make a private investigation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.586.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-06", "file": "debates1954-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "99285a624e06252e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.646.2", "colnum": "646", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS (PROTECTION TO CONSUMERS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Elaine Burton", "cue_text": "hon. members: \"Too little.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Elaine Burton", "preceding_text": "\"wool and nylon \"when the percentage of nylon is 1·2. It is robbery to say of anything that it is made of such and such materials if any constituent mentioned is only 1–2 per cent, of the whole. I hope the President will agree. I thought I would try once more, and I sent this to the right hon. Gentleman, in the hope that even he would think l.2 per cent, really was a little too much.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.646.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-06", "file": "debates1954-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "99285a624e06252e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS (PROTECTION TO CONSUMERS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "HON. members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "ciations have not unlimited funds… Surely it is the task of the Board of Trade, having produced the machinery, to guarantee its effective working. In that letter I mentioned trade associations. I have had experience of only one, but I am sure it is one of many which are doing a first-class job in this country. I come now to the Retail Trading Standards Association, which has been mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-06", "file": "debates1954-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "99285a624e06252e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS (PROTECTION TO CONSUMERS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "An hon. member: \"The hon. Lady will not leave time for it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "House asked for this when the Bill was going through the House. This the Government have refused to do. If they will not give the B.S.I, more power and authority and authorise the trade associations to bring the cases, it only leaves one thing —the Government will have to do it themselves. I come now to ask what the Government intend to do. I do not wish to leave any loophole tonight in the reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-06", "file": "debates1954-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "99285a624e06252e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS (PROTECTION TO CONSUMERS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "o the trade. That leaflet says that the filling was \"washed poultry feathers.\" That was quite honest. If that is an honest leaflet, why was not that one used to sell the pillows to the public? It was not the leaflet saying that the pillows were filled with washed poultry feathers that was sent to the President. He was sent the one that I sent him, saying that \"' Soft, resilient,' says Downy Duck.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-06", "file": "debates1954-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "99285a624e06252e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS (PROTECTION TO CONSUMERS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Burton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Burton", "preceding_text": "ing another pillow. It is called the 'Downland' Curlew full size down pillow. I do not know whether the President from his experience will say that a \"full size down pillow\" on a leaflet is a publicity puff or a statement of fact, but that is what it says. The filling material of this pillow was examined by still another committee, an expert committee of the National Feather Purifiers Association.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-06", "file": "debates1954-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "99285a624e06252e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "MERCHANDISE MARKS (PROTECTION TO CONSUMERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Commercial television.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "of this symbol. Who is to do it? Probably the British Standards Institution do not have the resources to do it, even if it were their job. If the President of the Board of Trade and the Parliamentary Secretary are serious about the development of the kite mark scheme, who is to do the work of public education so that people may know what this mark means? It is important that somebody should do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-06a.691.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-07", "file": "debates1954-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "eee92907aefbaf54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.783.8", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW REFORM (LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, &c.) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "a premonition, based on experience, that once we had to start negotiating with these people, they would beat us in the long run, because they have all the resources and so they will beat the individual. I support my hon. Friend all the way in his desire to get this Bill, although I shall not vote for this Amendment, because it should have been dealt with in Committee and not left until this stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.783.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-07", "file": "debates1954-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "eee92907aefbaf54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW REFORM (LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, &c.) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"On tiptoe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "It is no use my hon. Friend shaking his head. Even the Parliamentary Secretary, dancing among the tulips this morning, accepted that. Indeed, I have never seen the hon. Gentleman so lightly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-07", "file": "debates1954-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "eee92907aefbaf54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW REFORM (LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, &c.) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "roydon, East is talking about. I have tried several times to understand his interventions, but I cannot make head or tail of them. I know he is not speaking in Welsh and I cannot understand his English. On behalf of this body, and on behalf of public opinion generally, I am expressing my objection to the fact that my hon. Friend should have compromised with these people on this issue of principle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.785.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-07", "file": "debates1954-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "eee92907aefbaf54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW REFORM (LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, &c.) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McAdden", "preceding_text": "I know exactly why the hon. Member developed late opposition to this Clause. It was because he had not had his own way. Not having had his own way and secured the kind of individual personal publicity that he was seeking, he has suddenly developed opposition to the Clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-07", "file": "debates1954-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "eee92907aefbaf54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.791.1", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW REFORM (LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, &c.) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "is the complaint of the hon. Member for Heston and Isleworth (Mr. R. Harris) about what happened in Committee. I have taken the trouble to read the less than a column of the OFFICIAL REPORT containing what occurred on Clause 7. as this Clause then was, when my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Park (Mr. Mulley) got up to fulfil the pledge which he gave to the House that on the Committee stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-07", "file": "debates1954-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "eee92907aefbaf54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LAW REFORM (LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, &c.) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Policemen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " wait long for a change. The Royal Commission, presided over by a former right hon. Member for North Croydon, recommended that we should bring this matter out into the open. I think it would be much healthier if we had betting shops in this country where people could be seen by their friends and neighbours to go in and place bets, instead of having to hand bits of paper to policemen in the street—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-07a.795.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-10", "file": "debates1954-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e0394fbfbf590b68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-10a.834.2", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOUTH-EAST ASIA (DEFENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he stated that no discussions have been arranged, and that the President stated that: Most of the free nations of the area and others directly concerned have shown affirmative interest and conversations are actively proceeding… The fact that such an organisation is in the process…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-10a.834.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-10", "file": "debates1954-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "e0394fbfbf590b68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-10a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh I instead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh I instead", "preceding_text": "e-upon-Tyne, East (Mr. Blenkinsop) had some wise remarks to make on that subject. We are inclined to overlook the so-called part-time specialist, who is really full-time in the hospital service but is allowed to take private work. He takes a part-tune contract, and, in theory, is giving nine-elevenths of his sessions to the hospital. In actual fact, he is giving eleven-elevenths, or probably more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-10a.899.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "I can assure the right hon. Gentleman, for the very good reason that I stated in my original answer that the Joint Under-Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "preceding_text": "nd. Therefore, we have to face that position. We seek to get this Bill through. That is what it was introduced for…\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 25th November, 1948; Vol. 458, c. 1429.] I am sure that the whole House will be relieved that on this matter the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South and the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale spoke with one voice, and both spoke on the side of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1023.2", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "preceding_text": "[An HON. MEMBER: \"What Bill?\"] It was the Iron and Steel Bill. I hope that by quoting these great and weighty authorities I have established that I am within the principles laid down by Opposition speakers in applying the Guillotine procedure. That is my first point. My second point is that a fair period of trial has shown that it is the intention of the Opposition unreasonably to delay this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1023.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1031.4", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the Opposition are so touchy on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1031.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1031.4", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "n are so touchy on this matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] —because I have given a considerable number of examples of contradictory Amendments. I have quoted the point—which no hon. Member of the Opposition has tried to get out of—in the speech of the hon. Lady that the Amendments were, in her view, quite openly intended to bring the Bill to naught. Attempting to bring the Bill to naught is obstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1031.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1900.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "t hon. and learned Gentleman should not lose his patience or his temper because time is taken in dealing with Clause 1, which is usually the most important Clause of all in a Bill, and it is natural that a good deal of time is spent on the Amendments that are put down to it. The right hon. and learned Gentleman complained that most of the time was taken by the Opposition. Really, when was he born?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "anyway. I dare say there is a case for it, but to try to argue that the country cannot survive without it when we are living in such troublesome times, and assume that this is the best thing we can do with Parliamentary time, is pitiful. I have hardly ever heard a more pitiful, useless and poor speech from a Member of the Cabinet in all my life. I think that Guillotines in general are undesirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two and a half.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "on and Steel Bill. I call attention to the fact that for all these Bills we had an electoral mandate. They were mentioned in our electoral programme. We were doing what we had asked the country to give us authority to do, and the country had given us the authority. There were three Guillotines in a period in excess of six years. The present Government have been in office for just over three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "dence that we have not obstructed, it is that. As my right hon. Friend the Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede) reminds me, and I expect his memory is correct—it usually is—we do not remember an occasion when a Bill has been Guillotined in circumstances in which no Closure has been moved on the proceedings of the Bill in Committee up to that point. That is a new feature which will have to be noted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "or South Shields (Mr. Ede) reminds me, and I expect his memory is correct—it usually is—we do not remember an occasion when a Bill has been Guillotined in circumstances in which no Closure has been moved on the proceedings of the Bill in Committee up to that point. That is a new feature which will have to be noted —[ Interruption .] I hope that is not a menacing movement. I come to the conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "l. Nothing was more remarkable, when my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House announced the Guillotine Motion on 6th May, than the smiles and relief with which the announcement was received by quite a number of hon. Members opposite. The newspapers came out next day with a great cry of fury and resentment, but if they had been here to observe they would have seen that it was largely dumb show.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "I am very glad that the Opposition are getting used to time-table Motions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "to power on a programme of legislation. The right hon. Gentleman was not returned to power in 1950 on a programme of legislation. He has admitted it. Therefore, he did not need the Guillotine. I want to say something about the mandate argument. I do not think it has any relevance. All sorts of things spring up in the course of a Parliament. They have done so in the past and they continue to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "if lengthy obstruction on Committee stages is continued, of Parliamentary fruit which is over-ripe and rotting, and of Parliamentary decadence which needs reform. I welcome very warmly the introduction of this Motion, for the reasons I have given. I am not particularly wedded to every line and comma, or even to the principles, of the Bill. There are some features of the Bill with which I disagree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "by the autumn of 1955. It is still the same sort of inconsistency. But it was not my intention to pursue that argument, which has been developed by the Home Secretary. The point I wish to make is that the attitude of the Opposition to this Bill, to the idea propounded in the White Paper and to this Motion has been an act of the basest ingratitude, because in point of fact the Bill was unnecessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It always was so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "is a definite number of Supply days which must be accorded between April and the end of July. The Finance Bill itself may not only be complicated, but has to be got through by a certain date early in July. If we add one or two other essentials in legislation we have a situation in which it is almost impossible to take highly controversial legislation in the spring or summer without the Guillotine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doughty", "preceding_text": "If my conscience were the other way round, I should not obey the Whips. Had the Guillotine been put in the wrong way and at the wrong time, not only myself, but a great many hon. Members on this side also, would certainly not vote for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Ian Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Ian Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I could not quite follow the hon. Member's argument that in a Bill, which I feel should never really have been as controversial as it has become, only Opposition speakers should be allowed to make speeches and put forward points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1094.4", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "rd justice, I must say that he has always recognised that there has to be delegated legislation. What he and many of us have been trying to do is to have it without the House of Commons abdicating all authority in the matter in which delegated legislation was being proposed. What proposal was the noble Lord supporting today? Precisely that we should have a Committee stage in delegated legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1094.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "that on that occasion we went out of our way to take the Amendments not one by one but in groups, so as to shorten the discussion. The thanks which we get from the Home Secretary is the kind of speech we had today, in which he plays the game of comparing one Amendment with another and saying that they cancel one another out when he knows quite well that if, for once, he were honest in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is ' sea green,' not ' true-blue '.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "im to base his argument for introducing a Guillotine on that consideration, and it is completely unworthy of him. I was looking forward to hearing him on this matter, because if there is one attribute he possesses it is that of sounding honest, sincere and very righteous. I look forward to hearing him today in the role of a true-blue incorruptible, urging on the Assembly the use of the Guillotine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1110.1", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Member for that admission, for it indicates that the representation of the Socialist Party in the House is not truly representative of the opinion of the party in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "ir party in the House will go into the Lobby against the Bill. Although the argument in principle may have some cogency, hon. Members opposite know perfectly well that what would happen in practice would be that with those of my hon. Friends who might have scruples and who might not vote, the result would be a victory for the opponents of the Government. We must face the reality of that situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "lson and Colne (Mr. S. Silverman), who arrived to regale us for the first and last time in our discussions, on the subject of public opinion crystallising. I am glad that the hon. Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Mayhew) has again emerged. We all regret his indisposition last week and his absence earlier today. Public opinion can only crystallise on any subject if it has an opportunity of judging it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "I will bring my remarks to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1115.8", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Leslie Plummer", "preceding_text": "East ought to remember in his advertising business that over-statement and false advertising does not sell goods. He should not use in this House devices which he would not permit to the most junior copy-writer in his organisation in responding to the perfectly sincere argument of my hon. Friend. This exchange has illustrated a Third Programme approach to a subject evoking a Light Programme reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1115.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1121.1", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Grimston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Grimston", "preceding_text": " do the same and we have what has been described as \"shadow boxing.\" At the end of the debate everyone goes home delighted that the Guillotine Motion has been carried and in the knowledge that we can get on with the business. That is what will happen with this Bill. Hon Members on both sides of the House will go home tonight quite happy in the knowledge that the Guillotine Motion has gone through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1124.7", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "preceding_text": "not base his argument on the fact that we have no mandate for the Bill simply because we did not put it in the manifesto. If I may now turn to the question of party controversy, the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Lewisham, South, in a high and mighty tone, claimed that he had taken a high moral line and said, among other things, that he had offered the Government a free vote on this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1124.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1134.4", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "at. Then he gave reasons why the decision was taken to introduce this Guillotine Motion. What was the first reason? The first reason he brought forward was a remark made by me in the Second Reading debate, which was on 25th March. He quoted that I said: We shall fight this Bill line by line.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 25th March, 1954; Vol. 525, c. 1546.] We shall have to be careful what we say in future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1134.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the gorillas?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": " that Governments did what they had to do because of things that sprung up. I was wondering where commercial television had sprung up from. The complete denial of democracy by the noble Lord was not quite in accordance with the tone of the speech of the Home Secretary. The right hon. and learned Gentleman, of course, is always put up Co lend an air of respectability to the backwoodsmen behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Miaow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "so said that we had caused the controversy about this Measure. I thought that the hon. Member for Westbury (Sir R. Grimston) was far more forthcoming in describing the Bill as most controversial, but not placing any responsibility for that upon the Opposition. I thought that the hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East let the cat out of the bag when he said that a party with a majority of three —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "ime. If we are to get the Bill through before the Recess, he said, we must have the Guillotine. He made no reference to wasting time in Committee nor to lots of Amendments. No doubt, from the point of view of the Chief Whip, the hon. Member may have been nearer the truth than the right hon. and learned Gentleman. I was much impressed by what was said by the hon. Member for Farnham (Mr. Nicholson)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " himself set the tone. I agree that when it fell to me last Thursday to announce that we were proposing to introduce a time-table Motion on this Bill the right hon. Gentle man the Leader of the Opposition be stirred himself and said it was outrageous. Today, after calm reflection over the beautiful week-end, the right hon. Member for Lewisham, South described it as the Government being very silly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Louth (Mr. Osborne)—who made a most useful contribution—and others described the right hon. Gentleman's speech and some of his supporters as mere shadow-boxing. If the hon. Member for Anglesey (Mr. C. Hughes) is right in saying that all the Government's proposals are creating profound anxiety throughout the country, all I can say is that none of that was reflected in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ggles. Of course, it is true that no one likes Guillotines. I am not going to indulge in quotations across the House, but I accept even from the right hon. Gentleman what he said in his speech this afternoon that, in general, they are undesirable. I agree with that, because owing to the rather unpleasant connotation of the name, which sounds as if one was going out of one's way to curtail debate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1146.1", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "Of course it was supported on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1147.3", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " Friend. The only reason I can think of is that he could not think of any immediate answer to the facts which my right hon. and learned Friend produced, so he had to invent a theory of his own. His theory, supported by other participants in the debate, was that the Government had produced this timetable because on Thursday night, in the last Division, the Government's majority had fallen to three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1148.3", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "ANGLO-GERMAN DISCUSSIONS (TRADE AND FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was moved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "he subject of argument in this House. As the hon. Member for Test said, Governments must govern. Otherwise we get Government by a minority. This is a Government Bill, and the Government wish to see it through. The deed follows the word. Then there was another argument that the Motion was not justified now because the Closure had not been accepted during the two days in which we discussed the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1177.4", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIALL MACPHERSON INDEMNITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the hon. and learned Member talking about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "e had to choose someone already known and in the House of Commons. The principle was that he should resign his seat for a rotten borough and stand for the seat where there was an election. If there was someone in the Opposition putting up it was undesirable to allow him so to do. So these two offices in the service of the House were utilised for this purpose, and that in fact is how they appeared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1177.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-11", "file": "debates1954-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "62fe1761ffcdc376", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NIALL MACPHERSON INDEMNITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Sunday Express.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leslie Hale", "preceding_text": "r for Hertford (Mr. Walker-Smith), because we have heard him on previous occasions express himself with some force and some ability on this matter. He was always a very able and distinguished Member of the House, but he was not then the chairman of that powerful committee whose nod makes the Cabinet wilt even more than it normally does. He was then, I think, gossip writer of the \"Sunday Dispatch.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-11a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-12", "file": "debates1954-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "2e097b92f5606421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-12a.1269.2", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer‡", "preceding_speaker": ". Mann", "preceding_text": "Following the statement by the Joint Under-Secretary, about the land being acquired at its agricultural value, may I say that he knows that land cannot be compulsorily acquired if it is used for agriculture. Therefore, the price to the local authority will be the price that the owner of the agricultural land wants. It will not be subject to arbitration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-12a.1269.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-12", "file": "debates1954-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "2e097b92f5606421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-12a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And generation.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel and Power (Mr. L. W. Joynson-Hicks)", "preceding_text": "ultation on all matters of policy.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 3rd February, 1954; Vol. 532, col. 483.] That is the situation as we thought it was then and as we now confirm it to be. There is nothing in the Bill, and certainly not in this Clause, which can curtail the Minister's powers and duties of co-ordination. What, in fact, is transferred are certain specific powers with regard to electricity supply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-12a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-12", "file": "debates1954-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "2e097b92f5606421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-12a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": " He may be right and may have the satisfaction eventually of saying, \"I told you so,\" but democracy means that we have the right to make mistakes. People who want to run their own affairs locally, even local authorities, undoubtedly sacrifice economic efficiency. Anybody could prove that he could run this country more economically by means of a great centralised democracy than by local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-12a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1412.6", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has missed my point. We all admit that these inoculations do a tremendous amount of good. I am complaining that there are cases where the wretched parents are hit very hard. This poor woman has three children out of four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1412.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1419.2", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was insulting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "If I may say so, I was quite aware of that. I knew that the Minister has the final decision. Would the right hon. Lady be good enough to answer the body of my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1436.3", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I did not quite hear the final words of my hon. Friend. Did she express surprise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1436.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1438.0", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Attlee", "preceding_text": " House he is concerned with the privileges and rights of this House as a whole? Quite apart from whether it is Government or Opposition or anything else, this is a very important matter which has been raised by a responsible Committee, as to what are the rights of this House in relation to expenditure. It is one of our oldest privileges. Surely it is right that time should be given for discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1437.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deedes", "preceding_text": "t, but my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer draws—and indeed, the first Chancellor of the Exchequer drew— £4,000. After tax is deducted—Surtax and Income Tax—we must subtract the cost of his Parliamentary duties in excess of the £500 which he receives in respect of his Parliamentary salary—which is a maximum of £500. In respect of Parliamentary Secretaries, the same figure applies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": ".\" Suppose that a Member makes a speech on road safety or mental deficiency or something which appeals to a large number of people not only in his constituency but outside; he gets a large number of letters. He may get 500 letters, which is nothing very much. My hon. Friend the Member for Willesden, West is one who gets 500 letters. If a Member acknowledges each one, it costs him l½d. each.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1464.2", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And ex-Ministers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowles", "preceding_text": "e increase in pay and pension proposed were to come into farce it would attract the wrong type of M.P.—a person pursuing politics as a career. It is not easy to become an M.P. The aspirant, against many competitors, has to submit himself to the severe scrutiny of a selection conference.\"— and I know that there are ex-Members who have been going round the country for a long time trying to get bade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1464.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1508.2", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "preceding_text": "e used to cushion it for the older Members, who have little time in which to contribute towards it. Having said that, I would add that I believe we are now at the crossroads. I was brought up in the old order. The whole of my background and the whole of my public life is what people used to call the old order, and I am not ashamed of it, but I know that, in this modern world, the whole conception—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1508.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1509.0", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Shut up.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir V. Raikes", "preceding_text": " it for the older Members, who have little time in which to contribute towards it. Having said that, I would add that I believe we are now at the crossroads. I was brought up in the old order. The whole of my background and the whole of my public life is what people used to call the old order, and I am not ashamed of it, but I know that, in this modern world, the whole conception—[ Interruption .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "bers. I am not insisting on that. But I do not see why the Members of the Mother of Parliaments should be so ridiculously badly off compared with their opposite numbers overseas. If I were asked my view about secretarial expenses, I would say that I have always wondered since I came into this House—not that I would have made any use of any secretarial assistance, because I am differently arranged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": "ed. I make no bones about it. My trade union is regarded as a non-political trade union. It is not particularly concerned with political activities, although the members know how to vote at election times, which is very important. Most trade unions today have a waiting list of Parliamentary candidates. We cannot find many men in my industry who have the necessary brains and ability to do this job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1519.1", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": " We cannot find many men in my industry who have the necessary brains and ability to do this job. [ Interruption. ]It may be \"My God‡\" My hon. Friend the Member for Warrington (Dr. Morgan) keeps on making statements. He may not like the things that I am talking about, but they happen to be the facts. In that industry there are not many men who are particularly anxious to come to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1534.1", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "The Government were asked to set up a Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1534.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1534.5", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheapjack.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arbuthnot", "preceding_text": "t circumstances. In that way one can, perhaps, read too much into the Report of the Select Committee. We have heard a great deal about hardship, and I have no doubt that there is hardship amongst many of our colleagues. That hardship can be brought to an immediate end by the Member concerned. Every one of us knows perfectly well that at least half a dozen other people would like to take his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1534.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1557.5", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "ament. That is admitted on all sides of the House, and I do not want to weary the House by repeating arguments in that connection. All I want to add is that if agreement is reached for something to be done, whether on the lines suggested by my right hon. Friend or in some other way, then the decision should be made in this Parliament but should not be brought into effect until the next Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1557.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-13", "file": "debates1954-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "439e7cf2874ecb19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1558.1", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Wakefield", "preceding_text": "e House on certain terms and conditions. When we were returned here we all knew the terms and conditions of our election and the electorate knew them. Therefore, for the reasons so ably given by speakers on both sides of the House, I think that we should implement this suggestion in the next Parliament. I agree with other speakers that Under-Secretaries should be dealt with generously immediately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-13a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1705.2", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "ly to meet the wishes of the Scottish people and the wishes of the House. Just because the Government are a little short of time, or perhaps because some right hon. Gentleman is a little lacking in judgment, we are now asked, without any apology or explanation to revoke that procedure. I put it to you, Mr. Speaker, that the new Clause and these Amendments would get a much quieter, more reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1705.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rankin", "preceding_text": "elay. The Government promised to consider the matter and see what they could do to strengthen the Cause. They have gone one-third of the way. I suggested that the words to be added should be \"shall without delay.\" The Government gave serious consideration to the matter and decided to adopt the word \"shall,\" but not the words \"without delay.\" They have, as I say, gone one-third of the road with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1729.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1745.1", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not at all.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": "Yes. The right hon. Gentleman did not see his hon. Friends behind him. If I may say so, the smirks on their faces agreed with my view that his indignation was very synthetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "we are justified in en trusting to the local authorities the decision as to what, in any particular case, is required for rendering or keeping a house in a proper condition. Once that is determined, it is mandatory upon the local authority to carry out the work, and, of course, a default power is avail able if any local authority does not carry out the mandate which Parliament has imposed upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1779.1", "colnum": "1779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "cue_text": "HON. MEBMERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNeil", "preceding_text": "ox, I am not at all clear in my mind which is the correct course to take. What is it that the right hon. Gentleman argues? He argues that, because we have been concerned for the welfare of the local authorities and have been anxious to discover whether this Amendment could be used to their disadvantage, he should withdraw his Amendment. He is overwhelmed by the arguments which we have put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1779.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1780.3", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has done us a great disservice in suggesting that we have opposed his Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1780.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1788.3", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": " a company, on behalf of the creditors of the company sufficient funds, rents and other assets to discharge the whole demand of the authority: Who is to determine that? What evidence is to be adduced with regard to that? It does not even say who is to prove it, let alone who is to be satisfied with the proof. This is completely opaque. The Clause is quite unsatisfactory. It places an undue burden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1788.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1798.6", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "It is not that I have not got an answer to the point put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1798.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1801.0", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "ly echoes the words of certain other Clauses. Clause 2 (1) refers to … any building on land purchased by or belonging to the authority within that area, being a building which is or which contains a house which in the opinion of the authority, having regard to its existing condition … must be continued in use… We have there in that Clause the very words used in the new Clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1801.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1807.2", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I am not discussing the Money Resolution. I am talking about the scope of the Bill and my Ruling is that the new Clause is covered by the Long Title plus the contents of the Bill. As to the word \"premises,\" I am not a lawyer and perhaps the Lord Advocate will correct me if I am wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1829.7", "colnum": "1829", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "Before the Motion is withdrawn, I should like to say that I hope that the House will not think that Scottish Members are being unreasonable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1829.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-17", "file": "debates1954-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "f8ec4569582ab6c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1837.2", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (REPAIRS AND RENTS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "of certificates issued which would fall under any of the headings in subsection (2). I do not think the Secretary of State was quite right when he said that the dates to which the new Clause applied were limited by the action which the local authority took between 13th November, 1953, and the commencement of the operation of the Bill. I think that the Clause is better for the Government than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-17a.1837.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1891.1", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I do not control the rights of hon. Members to put Motions on the Paper. So far as I am concerned, I confine myself to defending and vindicating the actions of my own Government, the Government of which I was the head, and actions which I was personally responsible for, and I had not desired myself to embark upon a process of attacking continually other Administrations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1891.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1891.3", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sell out?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": " no wish to enter into a dispute with the Leader of the Opposition on that —is the Prime Minister not aware that, rightly or wrongly, a widespread impression now exists on both sides of the Atlantic that the inducement for the loss of this right of veto was, in fact, increased financial aid; and if this is so, are we not at least entitled in this House to know the price in dollars of the sell-out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1891.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1892.1", "colnum": "1892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Both in that last question and the preceding one from the Leader of the Opposition, the suggestion was made that what I had said was untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1892.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1908.0", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Herbert Williams", "preceding_text": "ple living there wish to go to visit the cinema, because of the incompetence of the nationalised London Transport, it costs them Is. 6d. each, or a total of 3s. to get to the cinema and home again. I do not know why hon. Members opposite smile at my description of the nationalised London Transport. It is the most incompetent transport body in this country. Fares are raised on successive occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Perhaps.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I am greatly in sympathy with the social and sporting purposes that underline the Amendment moved by the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, South (Mr. Ellis Smith). There has been no mention, though, of how the loss in revenue is to be made good, and my sole reason for this short intervention—and it will be very short—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1930.1", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "00BD; million or £2 million, but of £72 million. He did it like a lamb. He knocked it off as though it were nothing at all. Why cannot he adopt the same attitude about the tax on football as he took about Income Tax? The other argument the right hon. Gentleman used was that cricket was of international importance. He said that it was very helpful in cementing relationship between the Commonwealth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1930.1", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "part of the English tradition but as a common interest helping to bind together the various countries of the Commonwealth.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 14th April, 1953; Vol. 514, c. 55.] My right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaitskell) explained in last year's Budget debate that football has a much longer tradition in English history than cricket, but I shall not go into that in any detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1937.2", "colnum": "1937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "row's; HANSARD, was, \"It is common talk…\" I want to draw the Chancellor's attention to the fact that our Scottish games are organised in such a fashion that the dates are varied to allow the competitors a choice. By this means we have been able to develop the finest athletic talent in the world. Is it not true to say that in field events we produced Donald Dinnie, who won over 1,100 prizes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1937.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1939.1", "colnum": "1939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "gricultural shows receive a certificate of tax exemption because of their educational value. Will the Chancellor deny that Highland dancing has a cultural value? Is it fair that one organisation should be given a certificate of exemption while others are not? I want the Chancellor or the Financial Secretary to tell me which organisations last year running under the Highland games got an exemption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1963.1", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Probably in the breadline.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The \"Daily Herald.\" The last time I spoke, Turpin was in the headlines. We shall see where he is next year when I speak on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1963.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1963.4", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "I have nearly finished. The point I am putting is this: if we have a so-called sport which is not only hurtful to the active participants but is morally and spiritually hurtful to the onlookers, is that not a reason for taxing it out of existence?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1965.3", "colnum": "1965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "oxing bouts, some of which I have attended and enjoyed, no blows or injuries were inflicted upon me as a consequence of my attendance, and I admit that one or other of the contestants suffered injury. I say, and I challenge contradiction, that fewer injuries are inflicted in the boxing ring, certainly injuries with permanent effect, than on the football field, and particularly, on the rugby field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1974.1", "colnum": "1974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "–53 season than in the 1951–52 season, while in the 1953–54 season up to the end of February the average attendances at league matches had only been 1 per cent, lower over all compared with the corresponding period in the 1952–53 season. There has been a considerable pick-up in attendances. The previous decline was 5 per cent, and the decline last season was 1 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1989.0", "colnum": "1989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frederick Willey", "preceding_text": "g about this matter beforehand. Football is part of the life of Sunderland. I am surprised that the hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. P. Williams) has not attended during our discussion, because football—we are very proud of it—is part of the life of Sunderland. We always claim pride in two things. Sunderland is the biggest shipbuilding town in the world and the best football town in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-18", "file": "debates1954-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "a2f2933b3640e079", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1999.0", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Jones", "preceding_text": " fair to me and I always try to be reasonably fair to it. I read about the annual dinner of the Rotherham United directors and supporters club. The club manager told the supporters some pertinent things. We have in our football team some good boys who work in the local factories. There are two of them for whom the club could obtain £20,000 or £30,000 tomorrow if they were put on the transfer list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-18a.1999.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2072.1", "colnum": "2072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "The toll of life at present is so heavy that we are taking all steps that we can to reduce it. It is for this reason that the Government resisted the Prayer that was moved last night to annul the Regulations dealing with pedestrian crossings. We do not believe that any useful purpose would be served by imposing a speed limit restriction in areas where it is not likely to be observed by motorists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2072.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2078.6", "colnum": "2078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Profumo", "preceding_text": "Until the applications are advertised in the normal way by the Air Transport Advisory Council, it would be inappropriate for me to reveal any of the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2078.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2088.3", "colnum": "2088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Abadan?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Can the hon. Gentleman ever recall in British history any Government which remained so quiescent and inactive as the present Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2088.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2113.0", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite did not intend this, but that is the effect. I have been going over it in my mind. I really cannot think of anybody anywhere who would not be excluded. Lawyers would be excluded if they did anything except law—if they washed their faces, for instance, because it would be said that they had an interest in a soap business that might very properly be advertised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2130.4", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "me that the Opposition is seeking so to limit the qualifications for members of this Authority that very few people will have the right to serve on it. I do not believe that that was the intention of hon. Members opposite, but one could, for example, imagine that any member of the Labour Party, the Conservative Party or the Liberal Party would be prohibited from becoming a member of the Authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2130.4", "colnum": "2130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "ve that that was the intention of hon. Members opposite, but one could, for example, imagine that any member of the Labour Party, the Conservative Party or the Liberal Party would be prohibited from becoming a member of the Authority. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] If hon. Members will allow me, I will develop my argument. It is highly probable that the political parties will seek to advertise on the air.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2130.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "ill certainly have interests of one kind or another. Then subsequently we may suddenly find that one company, which in the initial stages had no desire to advertise or to take part in commercial television, wishes to buy space, and that one of its directors who has a big shareholding in his company, is a member of the Authority. What is to happen then? Is he to retire from the Authority forthwith?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2136.0", "colnum": "2136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "ody who advertises in any programme broadcast by the Authority should be excluded from membership of the Authority. I think that the Opposition would admit at once that if we were to accept that Amendment we should limit our choice very much. We should debar people who have been successful in business, and if we applied the limitation literally there would be a very narrow range of selection left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2152.1", "colnum": "2152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "This is the position. Here is a commercial undertaking which is to be run in order to enable certain private companies to make profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2152.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2154.5", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame. It being Half-past Six o'Clock, The CHAIRMAN proceeded, pursuant to Orders, to put forthwith the Question already proposed from the Chair.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2154.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2162.5", "colnum": "2162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "ios with their own equipment. It may be asked, \"What about a sudden emergency?\" Suppose that for some reason or another a programme contractor falls down on his job and has his contract cancelled, so that an emergency arises. What is to happen then? What is the Authority to do? It is argued that then the Authority would have to put on programmes itself. That seems to me to be an absurd suggestion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2162.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2174.4", "colnum": "2174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He is not here.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "e is pretending to resist, are making the mesh so large and loose that all the sharks will be let in. That is the real purpose of this play, which has been put on for our benefit this evening, of this sham right by people who want 100 per cent, and pretend they are not content when they get 99 per cent. I think, too, that the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Mayhew)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2175.1", "colnum": "2175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Scotch whisky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Walker", "preceding_text": "If only he had waited a little while, he would have been able to do so under the auspices of Bovril or Guinness, or something, under the terms of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2185.2", "colnum": "2185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Grimston", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Member for Islington, East (Mr. E. Fletcher) has just said, this series of Amendments is of course crucial, because the Amendments seek to upset the whole intention of the Bill Which is that there should be programme companies operating an alternative service under the control of I.T.A. Hon. and right hon. Members opposite want another State-run broadcasting corporation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2199.3", "colnum": "2199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the hon. and learned Gentleman was here during our earlier debates, or he would realise that this is a compromise between a complete, sponsored commercial television system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2199.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2200.1", "colnum": "2200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orr-Ewing", "preceding_text": "entlemen shaking their heads at that. They will find that what I say is true wherever they study broadcasting in the world. The suggestion has been made that people will work for the programme companies with their eye on the profit motive. I suggest in all humility that that is an attempt to drag the creative arts too far into the political arena. I do not believe that artists only work for money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2220.1", "colnum": "2220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "t where the truth really lies. That is the only way in which our determinations are arrived at. If one uses a scientific instrument, one does not just take one reading, but one reads above and below and comes to a determination between the two. Similarly, a man shooting at a target does not attempt to hit it with the first shot, but overshoots and undershoots and eventually makes the correct shot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2221.1", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "rom official sources can the facts be secured. When we have a statement from official sources we must not let anybody else have any other source of information because it might throw doubt upon the sources from which the official news has been produced.\" Can anybody conceive of such an argument being brought forward in Parliament, of all places? That is the argument which has been brought forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2222.2", "colnum": "2222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "I assume, of course, that the right hon. Gentleman believes what he is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2222.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2227.1", "colnum": "2227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I think that is so. I am not sure, however, that it would be equally easy for them to distinguish between the B.B.C. and an alternative programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2230.3", "colnum": "2230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And paying for it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": " every day of the week, obviously he would be a person with considerable experience and ideas at his disposal. He is obviously the right person to put on the news. If, however, it is felt that that is undesirable, some sort of special agency should be set up rather on the lines of being in the same position as a programme contractor—a news agency, with the Authority commissioning the news from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2235.4", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "The Authority will not need many studios to present the news", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2235.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2237.2", "colnum": "2237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "his Committee, the country, the Government and the Opposition want. We are not suggesting for one moment that the Authority—although we do not yet know what that Authority will be—will not try to do its best in the matter. We are saying that this responsibility should be laid on the Authority, and that the only effective way in which it can carry out that responsibility is by doing the job itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2237.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-19", "file": "debates1954-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "1bc794bd194dde52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2250.0", "colnum": "2250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "be likely to be biased on many of the administrative questions which might come before him for decision. I suggest, therefore, that this fairly general practice which exists in this country of not appointing people to fields where they have professional or commercial interests, is wise. But in this matter I would suggest that the hon. Member, having been a private builder before coming a Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-19a.2250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2275.7", "colnum": "2275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Lady Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2275.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2293.2", "colnum": "2293", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " 26TH MAY—Further progress will be made in Committee on the Finance Bill. THURSDAY, 27TH MAY—Television Bill: Committee [3rd Allotted Day]. FRIDAY, 28TH MAY—Private Members' Motions. Perhaps I may be allowed at this stage to answer the question which I am bound to be asked today, because I am asked it every week. It is in regard to the Teachers (Superannuation) Bill. At this period in the Session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2295.6", "colnum": "2295", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "The Motion has not appeared on the Order Paper, but I have an idea that its terms are well-known to quite a number of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2295.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2297.1", "colnum": "2297", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend tell the House who is responsible for the Motion that we are to debate on Monday? Since most hon. Members leave the House tonight and will not be here again until Monday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2298.8", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "I propose to make some comments on two of the speeches that were made in the debate last evening before it was interrupted by the operation of the Guillotine. I regret very much that the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Kelvingrove (Mr. Elliot) is not in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2298.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2298.10", "colnum": "2298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ver heard him make in the House. The right hon. Gentleman said yesterday that he was almost persuaded to support the Amendment but for the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Deptford (Sir L. Plummer). I do not believe that the right hon. Gentleman ever had any intention of supporting the Amendment, but that that was a piece of window-dressing as a preliminary to an attack upon my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2298.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2302.0", "colnum": "2302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": " He will see that this matter is to be handled entirely by programme companies and that the I.T.A. will not be a programme company. News will be handled by a second or third party. We are not told whether the programme company that handles it will be paid for by the I.T.A. or by advertisers. Is the programme company when broadcasting the news to put out advertisements and get money in in that way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2313.0", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. E. S. Simon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. E. S. Simon", "preceding_text": "hose who are parents will know very well what she means, but I do not believe that many of us would describe it in such forbearing or felicitous terms. The hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Miss Bacon) said that the set-up proposed in the Bill would be the greatest nuisance to parents. Is that not all quite fanciful? After all, parents, like politicians, very soon learn to resist pressure groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2327.7", "colnum": "2327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "No, I am not suggesting that. What I am saying is that these programmes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2327.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2330.1", "colnum": "2330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "It has an overall responsibility towards everybody because of the Clause I have just referred to. I do not think there is need for special responsibility towards children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2330.1", "colnum": "2330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As vague as anything.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "It has an overall responsibility towards everybody because of the Clause I have just referred to. I do not think there is need for special responsibility towards children. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Not if there is an overall responsibility closely defined, and what could be clearer than the Clause I have just referred to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2330.3", "colnum": "2330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "ey provided by Parliament. I cannot imagine anything more watertight than that. I do not want to make an ordinary party debating point on this matter which is so important. Our interests on both sides of the Committee are identical. I do not want anything to go out on the air that is likely to be harmful to children. What Government would want to run the risk of allowing such programmes to go out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2341.0", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "preceding_text": "The point to which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2341.0", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To some Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Bell", "preceding_text": "The point to which—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes, and I will give you something to think of, too. I was glad to hear the \"compliments \"that were paid to the Cabinet —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2341.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2374.5", "colnum": "2374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or at the beginning or at the end?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "The ordinary programme can have an advertisement in an actual break within it, or at the beginning or at the end. That is allowed for in this Bill. The Bill would not, however, permit any advertisement in a natural break in a religious service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2374.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2395.1", "colnum": "2395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": " That is greatly in the interest of the contractor, and there is no reason why he should not himself bear part of the cost of producing such a service and providing the staff. That, in the long run, would be less expensive on the public purse than having the Authority take unto itself the staff and the equipment. It would be less expensive to the taxpayer to do it through the programme contractor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2395.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2399.1", "colnum": "2399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member will read Clause 3 again he will find that there are sufficient safeguards. The responsibility for ensuring that there is no partiality in this respect is laid upon the Authority. Throughout the years, we in the Conservative Party have said that the B.B.C. is vary Left Wing, and some hon. Members opposite, in all sincerity, have said that the B.B.C. is very Right Wing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2399.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2410.1", "colnum": "2410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "All of them.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": " knowledge of industrial relations, the proper people to handle such a situation? That could do extreme damage to our home economy. Suppose that we had a political crisis. I imagine that most programme contractors would not view with equanimity successes achieved by hon. Members on this side of the Committee. I do not think I am doing them an injustice when I say that most of them tend to be Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2411.5", "colnum": "2411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "The Government did not indicate last night that they would accept the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2411.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2414.1", "colnum": "2414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "British people were completely satisfied with the B.B.C.'s handling of the Coronation, the Assistant Postmaster-General and the Government were dissatisfied, and have brought forward a Bill which changes the whole system. They are doing it because of their purely doctrinaire belief in private enterprise. For them, the only thing wrong with the Coronation ceremony was that there was no money in it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2422.7", "colnum": "2422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "The safeguards in paragraph 3 ( b ) of the Second Schedule are adequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2422.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2423.1", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": "This is something new that is being introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2423.4", "colnum": "2423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": " there? What do we see every day of our lives? The Royal Family on the cinema screen. It is not of course done by advertisements, but it is done by a private enterprise company which makes money out of it. Is it done with bad taste? Has any hon. Member of this House ever seen the Royal Family portrayed on the cinema screen except with good taste? The Coronation has been referred to in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2423.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2425.2", "colnum": "2425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh‡\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "e no question of the programme contractors coming into the matter in their ordinary capacity. I doubt if this Amendment is necessary, because I am convinced that, just as the cinema companies have shown good taste in this matter, so the programme contractors will show equally good taste. I hope I have convinced hon. Gentlemen, unless they wish to push this Amendment forward as a doctrinaire point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2427.4", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dignity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "That is precisely what I am about to do. I have not the exact words, but I think I am rendering them fairly. The Minister of State quoted a statement by the British Ambassador saying that the programmes were handled with decency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2427.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2427.4", "colnum": "2427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "t the programmes were handled with decency. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Dignity.\"] That is com pletely untrue, and I should like to know whether the Minister of State has made any apology to the B.B.C. or anyone else for the reference to the smear campaign. He knows, and so does the Assistant Postmaster-General, that the Ambassador's report which was quoted in the House of Commons did not represent the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2427.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-05-20", "file": "debates1954-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "cdedc5ea041a2d0b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2431.1", "colnum": "2431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to tell the right hon. Gentleman. The rules under which advertisements will be allowed in connection with the appearance of the Royal Family, or other special occasions, will be drawn up and it may be agreed as between the Postmaster-General and the Authority, which does not as yet exist. Those rules can be subject to Parliamentary discussion in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-20a.2431.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-05-21", "file": "debates1954-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "9bb0f3b904f03c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-21a.2505.2", "colnum": "2505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF BIRDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Clarke", "preceding_text": "rds. I do not think I should be out of order in mentioning their names; there was Lord Hurcomb and Lord Temple-more. They know a great deal about birds and they agreed that this Amendment should be made. I feel that the reasons which led them to take that view—because of the real objection which exists against the moorhen—should be developed shortly. I believe the moorhen to be an antisocial bird.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-05-21a.2505.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who is the exception?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Darling", "preceding_text": " at the growth of restrictive professionalism which is now found in so many walks of life. The time has come when we ought not to give even advisory authority to a restrictive body representing its own vested interests and nothing else. I am rather surprised that hon. Members opposite who represent advertising interests are, with one exception, absent when this important matter is being discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.90.0", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Preston, South (Mr. Shackleton) assumed so charmingly that I could not resist his Amendment that I hate to have to tell him that I can, and that we cannot possibly accept the Amendment because it would seriously detract from our trust and confidence in the Authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.90.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Welsh Affairs (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Welsh Affairs (Sir David Maxwell Fyfe)", "preceding_text": "ticular place is not providing a suitable competitive programme with others, the Authority must be prepared and ready all the tune to put on a programme itself. Hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite intend by that, and this is the real purpose of the Amendment, to put the Authority in such a position vis-à-vis the programme contractors that no reasonable programme contractor could operate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.119.3", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman did not hear me correctly. I said \"statification\" which is the making, the crystallising or freezing of the position as it is today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.119.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.120.2", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The grounds of public interest are two; that the public must have a second programme, and that that second programme must be given to them by someone other than the B.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.122.0", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "erence between one and two. When we have two we no longer have a monopoly. That, at any rate, is clear. We have the competition of the regional station, on the basis that we are accepting, that there is the B.B.C., and we have the fact, as my hon. Friend the Assistant Postmaster-General pointed out, that this is a growing discovery in which we are bound to have greater monopoly as the years go by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are in the Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I can answer that question without knowing what are the instructions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rding means that before the I.T.A. can act it has to be satisfied that it has an apprehension that a breach is to follow. This leads to all sorts of legal possibilities, presumably of arguments in the court as to whether the Authority could have had reasonable cause to apprehend that a breach in the contract was to be made. Consequently this is a Government Amendment which is a limiting Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.146.5", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Drafting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " can act it has to be satisfied that it has an apprehension that a breach is to follow. This leads to all sorts of legal possibilities, presumably of arguments in the court as to whether the Authority could have had reasonable cause to apprehend that a breach in the contract was to be made. Consequently this is a Government Amendment which is a limiting Amendment—[ Interruption .] What else is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.146.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.172.0", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "am glad that my hon. Friend has not pressed his first Amendment. That would have meant laying before the House a whole mass of technical details which would have been inappropriate. When this matter was raised in Committee I said that I would have another look at it with the object of laying before Parliament what should be laid before Parliament and, therefore, I am happy to accept the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.172.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-21", "file": "debates1954-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "7ed1894ebab80848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.172.4", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "ffice or will it be confined to the Library? Equally, we are entitled to know whether or not every allocation of a frequency will be notified to the House in the same way. Reference was made from the back benches opposite to the amount of power with which transmission is undertaken. The question was asked whether it would be low-powered or high-powered transmission. Will that information be given?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-21a.172.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and learned Gentleman aware of what is the ruling price for so-called fuel oil in this country, namely, about£9 Its, a ton, and that if we had the advantage of cheaper production, instead of keeping up the price at the artificial level, the price of oil burned under boilers would go down 20 per cent. to 25 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.216.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paget", "preceding_text": "Is not the£still worth 20s.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.223.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.224.5", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": "Will the Chancellor say why he agreed to the terms of this transaction? Will he agree that the essentials of it are that the previous owners, Vickers and Cammell Lairds, have bought back for half the price for which they sold it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.224.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rigging the market.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "We have to sell the steel on the market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.231.5", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Popular?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is taking great pains to ensure that the forms give full, clear and yet concise information. We are also publishing a popular booklet giving questions and answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.231.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "The idea that advertising and doing things for money is some kind of original sin and must be cut down to a minimum, which has been the argument of hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.253.3", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ntation is to be understood. In so far as the programme destroys presentation it is no advantage to the advertiser, and the programme, the purpose of which is commercial, has a censor which is very much more effective than any censor that we have so far discussed. The knob is the final censor. When an alternative programme is provided there is no need to listen to it if one does not want to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.253.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.265.5", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "here shall be no advertising in close juxtaposition to a religious service. I only regret that the hon. Gentleman has not been as insistent as we have been that there should be no religious services at all on commercial T.V. One thing absolutely sure is that because television time will be very valuable, particularly on Sunday evenings, there will be little likelihood of religious services at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.265.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.265.5", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "antee that such rules will be drawn up at all. We are now left to trust the Postmaster-General, and, quite honestly, a Postmaster-General who is served in this House by an Assistant Postmaster-General, who, at that Box, insists that it is right and proper for manufacturers of whiskey and promoters of betting establishments to advertise on a Sunday, does not inspire us with confidence that he will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.265.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "himself be able to put the programme on. I must reiterate that that is the basic difference between this scheme and what we understand is the practice in the United States. What I think the advertiser is entitled to know—I believe this deals with the point raised earlier by the hon. Member for Preston, South (Mr. Shackleton)—is the type of programme which his advertisement will follow and precede.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "Is there anything wrong or harmful in the suggestion which I have made? I contend that that is the only way in which advertising can possibly work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "Is there anything wrong or harmful in the suggestion which I have made? I contend that that is the only way in which advertising can possibly work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I do not mind saying that. Is there anything in this which is likely to open the door to sponsoring?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": " way that it is possible to carry out the suggestion I have made that the advertiser is entitled to know what type of programme is coming on after and will precede his particular advertisement. I see nothing wrong in the least about that. Hon. Gentlemen opposite may feel that it is undesirable, but if they think the matter out they will find that there is no other way in which the thing will work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sponsoring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": " have made that the advertiser is entitled to know what type of programme is coming on after and will precede his particular advertisement. I see nothing wrong in the least about that. Hon. Gentlemen opposite may feel that it is undesirable, but if they think the matter out they will find that there is no other way in which the thing will work. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] What is wrong about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.297.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Of course it has.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "ese special circumstances, coupled with, as I suggest, the offer of an alternative programme after which his advertisement would appear instead. I see no harm in that. That is not sponsoring; that is the opposite to sponsoring. That is simply the programme contractor ensuring that he will get the best possible programme which the public would enjoy. It has nothing to do with the advertiser at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.302.3", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "amme on the B.B.C. on Saturday night. Except in special circumstances I cannot imagine that there would not be some variety on Saturday night. These things would be understood and they are the commonsense basis on which things are worked. That is all that my hon. Friend has put. I do say, Mr. Speaker, that really the distortion which has taken place in this debate can only be put on the old basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.302.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.309.5", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": " Members opposite the B.B.C. has become an almost sacred body. As their Amendments moved in Committee showed, many hon. Members regard the B.B.C.'s programmes as the ultimate standard of taste, to which every other programme must be subordinate. Apparently, they cannot conceive that programmes put out by the B.B.C. can be bettered in any way, and they certainly think they should not be criticised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.309.5", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": " the ultimate standard of taste, to which every other programme must be subordinate. Apparently, they cannot conceive that programmes put out by the B.B.C. can be bettered in any way, and they certainly think they should not be criticised—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and that no one should be allowed to compete with the B.B.C. I think that is a fair summary of the attitude taken by hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "s, or in what way the new television service will be organised. I can say this, however, that, although we only envisage three stations in the first instance, I hope that it will not be long before it will be possible for the Authority to extend its operations, especially to Scotland and to Wales, more particularly as we have had such strong demands from hon. Members opposite that we should do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Orr", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A Labour Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Orr", "preceding_text": "smitters. I am advised that there is no reason why there should be any delay in getting 100 kilowatt transmitters. When moving the Third Reading, the Assistant Postmaster-General said that he hoped to see the programmes on the air by next year. Provided we get the right people on the Authority, and that speed is urged upon them, I see no reason why by September, 1955, we should not be able to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Grimston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Grimston", "preceding_text": " many months. One phrase which he used struck me, and with it I agree. He said that he looked forward to the day when television would be by far the greatest social force that there had even been. I believe that that is a correct repetition of what he said. Imagine that we should consider leaving such a force in the hands of a single State monopoly. That is what the Opposition are asking us to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Robert Grimston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Robert Grimston", "preceding_text": "d to the day when television would be by far the greatest social force that there had even been. I believe that that is a correct repetition of what he said. Imagine that we should consider leaving such a force in the hands of a single State monopoly. That is what the Opposition are asking us to do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] That is what they are asking us to do, and there is no practical alternative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.342.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.354.1", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Or hanging?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Darling", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Member apply that to the possible effects of hydrogen bombs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Profession?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harvey", "preceding_text": "d in. I can assure the hon. Member for Woolwich, East there were many people—and there are still many—in the advertising fraternity who had very great doubts and reservations. Some of those doubts and reservations have not been improved—I say this with the greatest respect—by the way in which the Bill has been handled and the very gross assertions about the integrity of the advertising profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was David.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "unt of financial connection or Governmental connection with it, and who realised that it was the best thing. We all recognise its imperfections, but the B.B.C. has proved itself sensitive to the criticism of the country, and to say now that we propose to introduce commercial television to break the B.B.C. monopoly is a little disingenuous. In Biblical days, when someone was sent to kill the giant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Popular.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " knows better than anyone else that we shall not get, through this powerful new medium, a balance of programmes or programmes of the quality that we ought to get. When I think of the attitude taken up by the Government on the question of advertising on Sundays and the kind of programmes that we shall get on Sundays—because Sunday will be a very big day for the commercial man under this new set-up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.360.1", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Heaven?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "tent of our broadcasting, and I can only ascribe it to a lowering of standards in the Conservative Party itself. The little money-grabbers are now in the ascendancy, and their voices are loud and their votes precious. I deeply regret that the Home Secretary has lent himself to the forcing of this Bill through the House. I have no doubt that the right hon. and learned Gentleman will get his reward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.370.3", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will find whether I am right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-22", "file": "debates1954-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "f31105d15fadc059", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.370.5", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "y of the B.B.C. That has been said by the hon. Gentleman the Member for Preston, South (Mr. Shackleton) and, I think, by the first four speakers on his side. Secondly, they were equally keen to assert—and the Bill helps them—that there should be a second programme. So it is now common ground that there should be a second programme and that that second programme should not be provided by the B.B.C.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-22a.370.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.394.1", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "There are many other things in the Report besides that in regard to villagisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.394.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Absolutely disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should put a Question on the Paper about these matters. About 39 executions have taken place for the possession of ammunition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.415.3", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICAN TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "I do not think I can agree to that offhand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.415.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.424.7", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.424.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (KOREA AND INDO-CHINA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "That is the meticulous accuracy of the Conservative mind. I happened to say that it was sunk. The hon. Member for Bury and Radcliffe (Sir W. Fletcher) does not deny that it was sunk, but because it was sunk at spot X it makes it completely different. The very fact that it was sunk demonstrates that the mighty battleship was unable to resist the forces of Japan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (KOREA AND INDO-CHINA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has fallen right into my hands. It is on record that the ships went down because they could not get the air power there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (KOREA AND INDO-CHINA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "might include (1) naval blockade, (2) putting Chiang Kai-shek's troops on the mainland with the support of American naval power, air power, supplies, and gold. Is it not pathetic? This means \"Let Asians fight Asians and we supply the gold.\" I see hon. Members on the Government benches smile at the fact that we live in a society that cannot give employment without war. The Americans, even in Korea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (KOREA AND INDO-CHINA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Doing it on purpose.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; I cannot give way any more. I am very sorry that I am upsetting hon. Gentlemen opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (KOREA AND INDO-CHINA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member always entertains the House, sometimes interests it, and occasionally instructs it. I do not want to take back anything of the compliment which I paid the hon. Gentleman on that occasion, so I shall merely observe in regard to his speech this afternoon that it was as colourful as some of the periodicals from which he quoted and about as relevant to the subject matter of this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (KOREA AND INDO-CHINA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Logan (Liverpool, Scotland Division)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is Hamlet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Logan (Liverpool, Scotland Division)", "preceding_text": "world. I believe that it is no use talking about apprenticeship in regard to politics. I think that we should go to those who are a little older than apprentices, who have been through life and who are able to understand the game of life. The House appears to me to be nothing less than the game of life, played in many parts. 'Shakespeare, I think, had no greater characters than the House produces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (KOREA AND INDO-CHINA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Logan (Liverpool, Scotland Division)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Are you going to take over?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Logan (Liverpool, Scotland Division)", "preceding_text": "much in the bringing of peace to the world as the present Prime Minister. I am not one of those who wish for the right hon. Gentleman's early demise, because I think that at the present time it would not be good. We on this side would not come into power straightaway, but we would in a few more months, and if he will wait for a few more months we will then be able to take over the reins of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-23", "file": "debates1954-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "13077383bf947337", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS (KOREA AND INDO-CHINA)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There is one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Eden", "preceding_text": " Western Europe if we had to contemplate a situation in which the ratification and the carrying into force of the E.D.C. had finally to be abandoned. I want the Committee to understand very seriously what I feel and why I feel it. It is just that for long past we have tried to find conceivable alternatives, and I tell the Committee that we have been unable to find any really workable alternatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-23a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-24", "file": "debates1954-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "35034f37b39a1efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.567.0", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that there has been no loss of public money involved in the transactions which have been completed to date—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.567.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-24", "file": "debates1954-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "35034f37b39a1efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. Bell", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. Friend is considering this subject, will he bear in mind that this firm on 25th April, 1953, wrote to the Commissioners of Crown Lands saying: We now think that if the land\"— that is, Crichel Down— was offered back in lots to the adjoining owners the total price received would be about £21,000. Please do not let the Ministry know this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-24", "file": "debates1954-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "35034f37b39a1efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.598.5", "colnum": "598", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES (GOVERNMENT DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There may be divided opinions at that meeting, as there often are in these discussions, but I think that it would be better that he should discuss the matter with his friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.598.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-24", "file": "debates1954-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "35034f37b39a1efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.599.2", "colnum": "599", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES (GOVERNMENT DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Godfrey Nicholson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that, whatever may be the rights and wrongs of this controversy, the prestige of the House as a whole, and Parliament as a whole, is suffering severely?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.599.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-24", "file": "debates1954-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "35034f37b39a1efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.599.5", "colnum": "599", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES (GOVERNMENT DECISION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I earnestly hope that if the proposal of the Government should eventually be accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.599.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-24", "file": "debates1954-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "35034f37b39a1efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Move it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Follick", "preceding_text": "We should be better off for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.645.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-24", "file": "debates1954-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "35034f37b39a1efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "amily businesses to cease to be manufacturing businesses and rather to go in for distribution and personal service. I have in mind not so much the antique dealers, who are of very great importance to this country, but the hotels, boarding-houses, restaurants and cafés in Hayling Island in my constituency. Although they are family businesses, none of them will get any relief under this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-24", "file": "debates1954-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "35034f37b39a1efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.750.0", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "t is, the Board of Inland Revenue— of any cases in which a business has in fact been broken up by the operation of the death duties. That is a very important statement. I ask the Chancellor whether this is still true, or has there been produced to him since he has been in office any single case in which a business has been broken up by the operation of the duties? Will he be kind enough to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-24a.750.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-25", "file": "debates1954-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6c2b678ea6554dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-25a.770.1", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN (FISHERIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duthie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duthie", "preceding_text": " and equipment of the vessels is of the utmost importance, and this is especially true of those in the inshore fishing fleets. Two months ago the vessel the \"Quiet Waters\" disappeared during a storm. One of the questions asked is whether she was over-engined? Another is whether her superstructure was defective? What was the reason for her loss? There is virtually no evidence left to tell the tale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-25a.770.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-25", "file": "debates1954-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6c2b678ea6554dae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-25a.817.5", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MINISTERS OF THE CROWN (FISHERIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is back. He arrived last night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Williams", "preceding_text": " desks doing their regular job. The fashion of peripatetic Ministers was started by Lloyd George in 1919, instead of Ministers staying in their Departments and thus making sure that no decisions are held up because they are away. I am not criticising anyone in particular. There is one Foreign Minister in Geneva, one in Washington. I am not certain about the other three. The one in the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-25a.817.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-28", "file": "debates1954-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c2217a14a3ff7620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FUEL AND POWER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Low?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "In view of the low price—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-28", "file": "debates1954-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c2217a14a3ff7620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Major Hicks Beach", "preceding_text": "In view of the very full explanation given by the Solicitor-General, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-28", "file": "debates1954-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c2217a14a3ff7620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "d like to ask a question on subsection (1, d ). The definition of \"relative\" seems a little strange. Apparently, so far as buying and selling companies is concerned, the forbidden degree of consanguinity includes ancestors. For instance, apparently a person may not sell to his paternal grandmother but he may sell to his daughter's child. Surely one's daughter's daughter is not a lineal descendant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-28", "file": "debates1954-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c2217a14a3ff7620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.963.4", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "not see how one can stop short at any logical half-way house between those points of view. I should have thought the point of view of the hon. Member for Wimbledon was quite unacceptable to the Government and certainly unacceptable to the Committee. 6.45 p.m. If the Amendment were accepted, a great amount of the teeth of this Clause would be taken out and it would remain comparatively ineffective.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.963.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-28", "file": "debates1954-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c2217a14a3ff7620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "in retrospective legislation. Indeed, I think that this Government can claim to have shown a very proper regard for that principle in respect both of certain provisions of Clause 14 and of our resistance to an Amendment moved by the Opposition to Clause 16. However, the first question that I would ask the Committee to consider is whether this is, in point of fact, a retrospective provision at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-28", "file": "debates1954-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c2217a14a3ff7620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.975.5", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albu", "preceding_text": "What was particularly revealing in the speech of the hon. Member for Heeley (Mr. P. Roberts) was his statement—it was the second time it had occurred in the Committee—that the party opposite is more concerned with the reduction of Estate Duty than with the reduction of any other form of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.975.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-28", "file": "debates1954-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c2217a14a3ff7620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "e Financial Secretary and the Government, having taken what they regard as a serious abuse, having considered the task of putting an end to it—and the Clause goes some of the way necessary to do that—should now, when the suggestion is made for emasculating the Clause almost 99 per cent., suddenly change their point of view and say that they are ready to accept the suggestion. That is what it does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.987.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-28", "file": "debates1954-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c2217a14a3ff7620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "d strengthen family life. Their proposal is by no means deplorable but is, on the contrary, generous and sensible. I gladly accept the proposal to introduce on Report a Clause which will deal more adequately with the principle which I have in mind. I hope that its effect will be to encourage family life and to cause the people to increase and multiply. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-28", "file": "debates1954-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "c2217a14a3ff7620", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tax dodgers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crosland", "preceding_text": ", but we certainly say it is an undesirable practice. If it is a Socialist principle to be against tax avoidance, we are glad to be Socialists, and if it is a Tory principle to believe in tax avoidance, we are glad to be anti-Tory. The party opposite has ceased to be a party of active business men and entrepreneurs and has become a party of accountants and lawyers, willing to praise tax avoidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-28a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1085.6", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I will give the hon. Gentleman the figures. There are 20 countries, but he mentioned three. These are the figures, in £ sterling for 1953: Guatemala, £386; Nicaragua, nothing; and Honduras, nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1085.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1093.4", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I am not sure. I should rather doubt whether my right hon. Friend would make a comprehensive statement to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1093.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1099.7", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Bromley - Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. - Colonel Bromley - Davenport", "preceding_text": "Since it has always been the practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1099.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1170.0", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is not saying much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Evans", "preceding_text": "iderably higher expenses than has his seeing colleagues. He has to have a reader, an amanuensis and special books, and new legislation must be put into Braille for him. These are additional expenses which should be considered by the Treasury in relation to the proposed new Clause. I have not the slightest doubt that the Economic Secretary is the most kindhearted person on the Front Bench opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Wimbledon (Mr. Black) has urged this proposition with persistence and, as usual, with eloquence, but I cannot find myself persuaded by his arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. R. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "t is done by the type of split annuity to which my hon. Friend referred or, as the plain man more often does, simply by buying an annuity. I have in mind the case of a professional man who came to see me in Kettering. His happens to be a badly paid profession, and the Financial Secretary will allow me to follow the well known procedure of no names, no pack drill, and go no further into what it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Kettering.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Fenner Brockway", "preceding_text": "ely small, for those old people it is sometimes a matter of bread and butter and other essentials of life. My own interest in this matter was aroused by a particular case brought to my notice as long ago as 1950. Then the need was urgent, and since that time, because the cost of living has been steadily rising, the need has become increasingly acute. The hon. and learned Member for Wellingborough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1270.2", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "Clause 1.—(FUNCTIONS OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Mass destruction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "nts to slaughter his own cattle to slaughter them in the public slaughterhouse. I am all for safeguards, and there is nothing like a public abattoir for providing them, but I want the private trader who wants to slaughter his own cattle to have the right of access to these slaughterhouses. The hon. and gallant Member for South Angus spoke of line slaughtering. I know that he means mass production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1270.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Clause 3.—(GRANT AND RENEWAL OF LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "th him, but with the House. It is intolerable that the Committee should not be afforded an opportunity to discuss an important point affecting a Measure which is to come into operation on Saturday. This is not a straightforward matter, for the Parliamentary Secretary will be embarrassed by the Amendment, as during the Slaughter of Animals Bill he expressed a point of view on this particular point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1274.1", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Clause 3.—(GRANT AND RENEWAL OF LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "ughter of Animals Bill during its passage through the House. This is an affront to the Committee. We know that the Government are getting increasing difficulties in their ranks, and want to contain discussion. May I ask whether we can have an assurance from the Government that this will be the last manuscript Amendment that will be moved? I was given warning that there will be a further Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1274.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1280.2", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Clause 3.—(GRANT AND RENEWAL OF LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": "o put them in order, the Minister or his legal hon. Friend decided to move them so that they might be got through in the guise of Government Amendments. That was a deliberate attempt to mislead the House. Now that the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House can leave his couch where he has been sleeping peacefully for the last two hours in order to put this matter right, and can then tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1280.2", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Clause 3.—(GRANT AND RENEWAL OF LICENCES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robens", "preceding_text": " Gentleman the Leader of the House, performing his duty of looking after the interests of all hon. Members, is now brought from his room to tell us that the Amendments to be moved by his legal Friend are now to be withdrawn. If the Government were not interested in these Amendments—not anxious about them—why did they take the responsibility from their backbenchers and waste the time of this House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1280.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Clause 18.—(SAVINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "at is the position? Surely we are entitled to some explanation from the Government. They had one view a few weeks ago when we had Second Reading and another view a few weeks ago when we were in Committee upstairs. Now they come back and say, \"We have another view tonight.\" Does not this action show that the Government are bungling and making a mess of it? Decontrol comes into effect this week-end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Clause 18.—(SAVINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "his advisers an opportunity to think about this matter further we could know what they have in mind, but, in the absence of any clear thinking and inability to make up their minds, it means that, as the butchers say, there is a very real risk that there might be chaos in the next few weeks. It will be quite clear if there is chaos—which we on this side of the House want to avoid as much as anyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Clause 18.—(SAVINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "The Opposition are all in bed.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": " examine it and stick by the date in the Bill. That is what they have done—exposed the Joint Under-Secretary and made him a laughing stock. That is probably their purpose—probably they want to pillory the Joint Under-Secretary. Probably it was because I congratulated him on his lucidity in Committee that the 1922 Committee struck. If so, I apologise to him, but surely we have come to a sorry pass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1285.2", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Clause 18.—(SAVINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1285.4", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Clause 18.—(SAVINGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Royle", "preceding_text": "I was on the point of saying that, during the course of the Second Reading debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1285.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-29", "file": "debates1954-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "d5d866a41562e799", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1287.6", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Schedule.—(ENACTMENTS REPEALED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "hey are powers which local authorities throughout the country cherish. 12.45 a.m. Since the Minister did not venture to give any proper explanation, I must detain the House for a few moments to explain the significance of the Amendment. Its purpose is to insert, at the end of line 18 in the Schedule, In section sixty, paragraph ( b ) of subsection (2). We were not told what Section 60 (2, b ) was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-29a.1287.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1333.4", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I shall be delighted to deal with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1333.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1352.4", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROAD HAULAGE ASSETS (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest Davies", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1352.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1352.6", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROAD HAULAGE ASSETS (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I think that both supplementary questions will be in the same form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1352.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROAD HAULAGE ASSETS (SALE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I do not know what the hon. Gentleman has in mind when he talks about my predictions. What I have said was that we would carry out the terms of the Act, giving an opportunity for people to bid for these vehicles. A very high proportion of vehicles without premises has in fact been sold. Certain lessons have been learned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1353.7", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN ACT, 1707 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Parker", "preceding_text": "inancial worry…he is not the best representative for the people of this country. The hon. Member went on to point out that there were far too many Members in the House of Commons who had particular labels tied to them. He pointed out that some of them had the label tied to them of representing the brewing interests. Others represented the landed interests, and others the building interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1353.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN ACT, 1707 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "I am sure that most of us, on whichever side of the House we sit, would agree that the great majority of the House consists, whether we like it or not, of professional politicians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN ACT, 1707 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "I beg to oppose the proposal which has just been made to the House. I consider that the object is bad, the method is bad and the timing is deplorable. The object, as explained by the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Parker), is that the House of Commons should take upon itself the duty of deciding who are to become Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN ACT, 1707 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "n the terms describing the Bill and it was stated again by the hon. Member in his speech. The terms of the proposal are: …income…in excess of such a sum and from such other sources as shall be decided by resolution of the House of Commons shall…disqualify from membership of the House of Commons… Thus, the House of Commons by resolution decides who shall be disqualified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN ACT, 1707 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"MacManaway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Elliot", "preceding_text": "onsiders to be amateurs. Who is the judge of who enters this House? The electors and no one else. This is not the first time that attempts have been made to limit membership of the House of Commons. Always they have been unsuccessful. A person who comes to the Bar of this House bearing with him the sanction of the electorate is inevitably at some time or other admitted to membership of this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "STROUDWATER NAVIGATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garner Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garner Evans", "preceding_text": "ous.\" That was one of the most beautiful sections of canal in the country. It was a lovely stretch—almost as good as that which goes through my own home town of Llangollen. They closed the canal to traffic. A couple of working boats were left above the breach and a boatbuilder, a most useful man, was put out of business. Then, in 1943, the L.M.S. came to this House when our attention was diverted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1445.3", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "STROUDWATER NAVIGATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Large barges.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baird", "preceding_text": " that 300-ton barges must be used before canal transport can become economic and profitable is as wide of the mark as the argument that canals are antiquated. I have said in the House before that no Member who travels about the Continent and sees the amount of traffic carried on canals in the Low Countries and in Germany would argue that those canals are antiquated. Some of them are narrow canals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1445.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "COVENTRY CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ereas an organisation of wholesalers or retailers representing the growers is obliged to go through the municipal market, thereby creating an additional tier of trade distribution and adding to costs. It must be made clear that if this Clause were accepted, if the Bill went without the Instruction to the Committee, the general effect would be to add an additional link in the chain of distribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1469.2", "colnum": "1469", "heading": "COVENTRY CORPORATION BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is shouting about markets and about communism and Socialist councils. Is he aware that the Birmingham City Council had such an arrangement for many years—in fact, until 1945—from the time I went on to the council. It had a large Conservative majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1481.1", "colnum": "1481", "heading": "MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. J. Erroll", "preceding_text": "I beg to second the Motion. The Motion has been ably moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Sir C. Taylor). I would remind hon. Gentlemen that we are settling this question not only for Manchester but for the country as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-06-30", "file": "debates1954-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "8c59bf2cd1ddbc56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "MANCHESTER CORPORATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Erroll", "preceding_text": "mber for Motherwell (Mr. Lawson) hopes for, namely, that of ensuring the humane slaughtering of poultry. They would only lead to the inspection of premises and to a cumbersome procedure for obtaining licences or a renewal of licences which, in our submission, is quite unnecessary. That brings me to my next point, which is that the need has not been proved. Somebody in Manchester had a bright idea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-06-30a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-01", "file": "debates1954-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "830175153e34a38e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1501.2", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman yet decided whether he is in favour of the spread of the disease or against it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1501.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-01", "file": "debates1954-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "830175153e34a38e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1509.2", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-01", "file": "debates1954-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "830175153e34a38e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1509.2", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"] Further, would it not be better to be quite honest about this?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1509.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-01", "file": "debates1954-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "830175153e34a38e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1509.4", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is not entitled to suggest that another hon. Member is being dishonest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-01", "file": "debates1954-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "830175153e34a38e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1509.6", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "In reply to the first part of the hon. Member's supplementary, let me say that the Under-Secretary of State was referring to what are the vast majority of cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1509.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-01", "file": "debates1954-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "830175153e34a38e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1510.3", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-01", "file": "debates1954-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "830175153e34a38e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1529.2", "colnum": "1529", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand that the Bill was withdrawn by the hon. Member in the Public Bill Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1529.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-01", "file": "debates1954-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "830175153e34a38e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1532.0", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Publicly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "I must ask the right hon. Gentleman to allow me to inquire about the last part of his question. I will write to him about the present salaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1532.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-01", "file": "debates1954-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "830175153e34a38e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1534.5", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "So could we.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Eccles", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of choice how their salaries are paid. I think that the hon. Member will know that these particular men could, if they were to cross the Atlantic, get very much more than they are getting here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-01a.1534.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-05", "file": "debates1954-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "944bb9bc62cd3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1764.1", "colnum": "1764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GUATEMALA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I do not accept what the hon. Gentleman says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-05", "file": "debates1954-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "944bb9bc62cd3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1807.4", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "was the point I wanted to put to the Committee. Whatever is the plan actually approved by the House—as we know, the House can make its suggestions with regard to the Bill—there is a great deal of preliminary work to be done by the civil Departments for the training of mobile column personnel, and all of that is being pushed forward with drive and energy. The Epsom establishment, suitably extended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1807.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-05", "file": "debates1954-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "944bb9bc62cd3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1817.3", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "The mobile columns which I described earlier are columns dealing with rescue work and fires. I am now referring to the mobile feeding arrangements of the Ministry of Food, and they would operate as the hon. Gentleman says, but they are not part of the mobile columns which are to deal with rescue and fire. There is a separate organisation dealing with food.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1817.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-05", "file": "debates1954-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "944bb9bc62cd3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "no doubt, debarred by the rules of order from going into that matter too fully, but, as it has been mentioned to a certain extent, I make no apology for doing so. I am a little worried as to how this will work out. I do not believe that there is any other way of doing this unless we take a block of National Service men from the time they are enlisted and put them straight away on to civil defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-05", "file": "debates1954-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "944bb9bc62cd3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1837.1", "colnum": "1837", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Egypt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Prior-Palmer", "preceding_text": "to how this will work out. I do not believe that there is any other way of doing this unless we take a block of National Service men from the time they are enlisted and put them straight away on to civil defence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] It is all very well for hon. Members to say \"hear, hear,\" but where are we to get them? We are back to the old problem, to which we have never had an answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-05", "file": "debates1954-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "944bb9bc62cd3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1853.0", "colnum": "1853", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "s year of the hydrogen homb, the House of Commons has passed Estimates for £1,550 million for weapons of offence and £29 million for civil defence, or one-fiftieth of the sum devoted to the armoured brigades, the quarter-masters and the rest of the paraphernalia of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Therefore, one-fiftieth of the interest shown in the Army, Navy and Air Force is shown in civil defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1853.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-05", "file": "debates1954-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "944bb9bc62cd3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Brooke", "preceding_text": "civil defence, and knows that most of the vicious and powerful attack which the hon. Member for Coventry, East has just delivered could equally have been delivered against the Labour Government which he supported. The hon. Member for Coventry, East had the opportunity to make a valuable, as well as a powerful, contribution to this debate. In my judgment, he has preferred to make a mischievous one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-05", "file": "debates1954-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "944bb9bc62cd3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1865.1", "colnum": "1865", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henry Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henry Brooke", "preceding_text": "to sustain civilian morale. What the hon. Member has said in this debate will certainly have shaken the morale both of civil defence volunteers and of those who have hitherto believed that civil defence work was important. He will have done that, and I greatly doubt whether he will have given service to his own constituents in Coventry or to anyone else by suggesting that there is an easy way out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-05", "file": "debates1954-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "944bb9bc62cd3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1882.5", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Harvey", "preceding_text": " than fair to him and to the Government, because, with the exception of the speech of the right hon. Member for South Shields (Mr. Ede), there has not been a very clear recognition of the extreme complexity of this problem. It is, indeed, a very difficult one for reasons which the hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) outlined, although he gave no solution, which is a typical habit of his.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1882.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-05", "file": "debates1954-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "944bb9bc62cd3db8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1925.1", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE (CASUALTY COLLECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In hospital.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "opulation after the battles of London, Birmingham, and Glasgow? I should have thought we should have needed assistance from the Royal Army Medical Corps, and the Royal Ordnance Corps. Is this to be a service merely to collect the casualties of hydrogen bombs, or bacteriological bombs, or poison gas? I ask that because there is nothing in these Regulations about where the casualties will be placed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-05a.1925.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.1961.5", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that there is no question whatever of our unilaterally altering the China list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.1961.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.1962.7", "colnum": "1962", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Is it possible for the Minister to tell us why the proceedings of the Consultative Committee are continually held up? He has given me an assurance that it is not we who hold them up. Which Government is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.1962.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.1964.5", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "There is no difference between the list of prohibitions enforced by Her Majesty's Government and that enforced by the Federal German Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.1964.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.1985.2", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE (SALE OF ASSETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " and operation.…Mr. Smith has bought the depot together with nine eight-wheeled vehicles and six four-wheelers. Then, what I thought was very interesting: Most of those big wagons will be on the road later today, carrying goods. Above, there is a picture of Mr. Smith greeting as old friends the vehicles which he formerly owned and has now acquired back from the British Transport Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.1985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.1990.3", "colnum": "1990", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE (SALE OF ASSETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "—1948 to 1952—which were the facts in front of the prospective purchasers or repurchasers of these assets, showed nothing like that rate of profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.1990.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2041.1", "colnum": "2041", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE (SALE OF ASSETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"Obsolete.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "All those facts were known to the right hon. Gentleman when he decided to hand the vehicles over to private enterprise. He had been complaining about the long nature of the process, but he must have anticipated that, and he should have been aware of the difficulties that we experienced when we took over vehicles that were almost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2042.0", "colnum": "2042", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE (SALE OF ASSETS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good Lord!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ission and some private interests in varying proportions, the management being left to the B.T.C. As the hon. Gentleman knows, the Act provides that the shares of a company must be disposed of in one parcel. It would have been technically possible within the Act for the British Transport Commission to divest itself of the shares to some private purchaser and to buy back a proportion of the shares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "OVERSEAS INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "The service had to be cut because there was a rise in costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2080.1", "colnum": "2080", "heading": "OVERSEAS INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": " Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and cutting out film distribution in Latin America and Europe. Finally, there was a cut of £241,000 or 9 per cent. in the British Council total grants, of which the Foreign Office grant-in-aid was £180,000. As against that, what have we done to extend during that same period. We opened the Khartoum information office in 1953 and reopened the Persian information office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2080.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2087.1", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "OVERSEAS INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We have heard that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "the major N.A.T.O. countries and Yugoslavia. For the information of the hon. Member, I would say that the major N.A.T.O. countries include the United States of America. It will, therefore, be some comfort to the hon. Member for Enfield, East, that I can tell him that the total broadcasting time of the major N.A.T.O. countries plus Yugoslavia is substantially more than 2,000 programme hours weekly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2087.1", "colnum": "2087", "heading": "OVERSEAS INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"W hat about Ceylon?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "ed by a certain section of the newspapers against the British Council. I very much hope that the booklet which the British Council has turned out in its own defence will receive almost the same circulation as the newspapers to which they replied. I fear that it will not receive quite the same circulation, but I wish that I could think that it would. Finally, a word on the question of coordination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2100.1", "colnum": "2100", "heading": "OVERSEAS INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Cross Bencher.' \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "that I hope he discharges it better than he does in the field of the Commonwealth. The truth of the matter is that the men and women in the British Council are doing a first-rate job of work, and the one part of the Minister's speech to which I pay full credit was his reference to the deplorable attacks that have been made on the British Council. If he gets an honourable mention by \"Back Bencher\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-06", "file": "debates1954-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "b83c69bcf949bcd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2105.1", "colnum": "2105", "heading": "OVERSEAS INFORMATION SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"After it was taken?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "from Australia, New Zealand and Ceylon a stage further, but I have nothing further to say to what I informed him in answer to his intervention. In answer to the hon. Gentleman the Member for Preston, South may I say that there was no consultation between the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and the Commonwealth Governments concerned, but the Governments were informed of this decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-06a.2105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-07", "file": "debates1954-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "efcc190d78f41596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-07a.2233.5", "colnum": "2233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(GENERAL SCALE OF RATES OF ESTATE DUTY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I observe that later on the Order Paper there is a new Clause proposed by the right hon. Member for Blackburn, West (Mr. Assheton)—[ Estate duty (extension of certain exemptions) ]. These two new Clauses seem to cover the same ground, and can be discussed together, if that be convenient to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-07a.2233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-07", "file": "debates1954-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "efcc190d78f41596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-07a.2246.8", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(REDUCTION OF STAMP DUTIES ON CERTAIN CONVEYANCES OR TRANSFERS ON SALE.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": " the Stamp Duty on the mortgage will be £4 5s., making a total of £67 15s. That is a considerable sum for a purchaser to find on top of the lump sum deposit which he must put down in order to get the assistance of the building society and complete the purchase. If the purchase price of the house is £2,500 and the loan is £2,250, then the total cost on an unregistered title would amount to £89 15s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-07a.2246.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-07", "file": "debates1954-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "efcc190d78f41596", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-07a.2281.1", "colnum": "2281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.—(AMENDMENT OF PART VIII OF INCOME TAX ACT. 1952 (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES).)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. A. Butler", "preceding_text": "Being on Report, it is not desirable that a Minister, or indeed any person, should take part twice in our debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-07a.2281.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-08", "file": "debates1954-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "93160f2c9d66ce4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2316.5", "colnum": "2316", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Kerby", "preceding_text": "While thanking my right hon. and learned Friend for making it public, may I ask whether he will now ensure that this alien leaves the United Kingdom on that date?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2316.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-08", "file": "debates1954-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "93160f2c9d66ce4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2322.6", "colnum": "2322", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "That is the letter that is in the \"Daily Worker.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2322.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-08", "file": "debates1954-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "93160f2c9d66ce4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2334.2", "colnum": "2334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I ask the hon. Lady what is represented by the flowers she is wearing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-08", "file": "debates1954-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "93160f2c9d66ce4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2341.2", "colnum": "2341", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN DEFENCE COMMUNITY (FRANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister think that, now at last there is a French Government with a Prime Minister who looks like achieving stability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2341.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-08", "file": "debates1954-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "93160f2c9d66ce4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2343.9", "colnum": "2343", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which one?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Labour Party would prefer their own leader should be the Prime Minister after the next General Election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2343.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-08", "file": "debates1954-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "93160f2c9d66ce4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2348.2", "colnum": "2348", "heading": "MEMBERS' EXPENSES (SESSIONAL ALLOWANCE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think it would be better to get this settled at once, without prolonging the present severe conditions in order to have a further debate upon a matter which has been most thoroughly examined, not only in the Chamber, but in the minds of bon. Members and indeed throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-08", "file": "debates1954-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "93160f2c9d66ce4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2350.4", "colnum": "2350", "heading": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS (WITHDRAWAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Where is the line to be drawn between one Bill and another—for example, between a Private Member's Bill and the Finance Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2350.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-08", "file": "debates1954-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "93160f2c9d66ce4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2350.4", "colnum": "2350", "heading": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS (WITHDRAWAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order. Where is the line to be drawn between one Bill and another—for example, between a Private Member's Bill and the Finance Bill? [ Interruption. ] Does this not put hon. Members and the House into a difficulty when, after discussing the Measure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2350.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-08", "file": "debates1954-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "93160f2c9d66ce4e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2352.2", "colnum": "2352", "heading": "PRIVATE MEMBERS' BILLS (WITHDRAWAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. I. O. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. I. O. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I hope that I am mistaken, Mr. Speaker, in thinking that you did not grasp completely the point I was putting. My question was: At what stage in the proceedings on a Private Member's Bill does it become the complete property of this House, when the House has authority to determine that the Private Member cannot withdraw it? Your answer was that it remained the property of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-08a.2352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-09", "file": "debates1954-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "08fcce4dd319d6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2513.1", "colnum": "2513", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Noel-Baker", "preceding_text": "re were difficulties over materials and other things, but in 1947 the increase was 347; in 1948, 566; 1950, 965; 1951, 1,113—and in the calendar year 1952 it reached 1,539 mega watts. That is another miraculous achievement and should be remembered to the very great credit of the B.E.A. I would venture to add that that figure could never have been achieved unless the industry had been nationalised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-09", "file": "debates1954-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "08fcce4dd319d6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2523.1", "colnum": "2523", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Braithwaite", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Pests Bill is next.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Braithwaite", "preceding_text": "avid Copperfield\" may remember a female character, a Miss Rosa Dartle, who was in the habit of asking pointed and pertinent questions, generally regarding affairs of the heart. She always ended by saying. I am only asking for information. I want to know.\" So do I. Gas and electricity are now at the wicket and look like batting until four o'clock, but who is coming in next? What are the priorities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-09", "file": "debates1954-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "08fcce4dd319d6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2562.5", "colnum": "2562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkin", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Member will dispute that before the war the country's fuel and power resources—they have increased in efficiency as a result of electricity developments—were not sufficient to maintain the industrial workers in full employment; they could not have kept the factories going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2562.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-09", "file": "debates1954-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "08fcce4dd319d6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2573.1", "colnum": "2573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " people in Western Germany. Moreover, we have no unemployment as they have. When the noble Lord was speaking a couple of hours ago, I could not reconcile the views which he was expressing with his known gentleness of attitude and kindliness of disposition. All the things he was pleading for would mean that the people who put me in this House would once more be lining up at the Employment Exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-09", "file": "debates1954-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "08fcce4dd319d6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2574.1", "colnum": "2574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ublic services, are able to boast that there is full employment and that everything is prosperous. The prosperity of this country today is a direct consequence of what we on this side did in relation to this matter. Everyone who came out of the First World War knows it. I wish to finish with a fairly simple analogy on the question of the gentleman in Whitehall knowing best, as he undoubtedly does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-09", "file": "debates1954-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "08fcce4dd319d6de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2589.1", "colnum": "2589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joynson-Hicks", "preceding_text": "country districts and farther away from the main concentrations of habitation. All this shows the lines and gradually developing pattern of our fuel policy. It shows quite clearly also that our fuel policy does not start at the consumer's end. I believe that to be erroneous. It may be that my hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster may want to join issue with me on that point on another occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-09a.2589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.7.0", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that there has been a lot of sharp practice in respect of imported meat? Will he make it clear to both butchers and housewives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.7.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.8.6", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "If, contrary to the laws of supply and demand, increased supplies are going to cause increased prices, which is the Parliamentary Secretary's case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.8.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN TALKS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "ily while also at the same time preventing the recreation of a German national army. Dr. Adenauer in his wisdom has made it clear that he much prefers an international army. To me, the bulk of whose public life has been spent in war or preparation for war with Germany, it seems little less than madness to leave that active and virile nation with no choice but to raise an independent national army—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. I should like to ask your guidance, Mr. Speaker, as to what we are to do about the statements to which we have just listened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.39.0", "colnum": "39", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "tatements to which we have just listened. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] Is it not a complete abuse of the proceedings of the House that it should have, not a statement which the House can study in preparation for the debate next Wednesday, not a statement of such urgency that it could not be withheld, but a series of opinions on policies—indeed, a speech which the right hon. Gentleman is now making?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.39.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think there is any point of order in this for me. The Prime Minister is giving us an account of the subjects discussed at Washington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.40.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "ANGLO-AMERICAN TALKS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donnelly", "preceding_text": "Might I respectfully make this submission to you, Mr. Speaker? The system of making statements at the end of Questions has grown up in the last few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.42.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": " this side agree with the Chancellor that it would not be immoral to reduce taxation, but a very good thing to do so, and the more he could do it the better we would be pleased. There is a cleavage between the two sides of the House on what is included in this Bill. Hon. Members opposite seem to think that taxation is good in itself and the more they can pile it on to private citizens, the better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not a tied House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "Despite the fact that I am boring the hon. Member stiff, I propose to continue what I have to say. This was once a free House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.96.3", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Osborne", "preceding_text": "ides of the House. He was talking about the desirability of reducing taxes, which then were only a quarter of what they are now. Therefore, if what the Prime Minister said then was true, it is much more true today. Talking about the removal of tax burdens, my right hon. Friend said: That is a course along which we are entitled to proceed hopefully, endeavouring to lighten the burden of taxation \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.96.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.116.1", "colnum": "116", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Tummel-Garry.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": "What scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": " never had one sentence either from the Secretary of State or the Joint Under-Secretary in this debate to show us how there will be any closer contact between the Scottish people and the supply of electricity. I want to ask the Secretary of State a question on this. Does this mean that the Scottish people, the consumers of electricity—Mrs. Brown, or Mrs. Smith, or Mrs. Mack, or the industrialists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "n has been given so far. Another point is important to our Scottish people. The Secretary of State and the Tories have been trying to tell them that the Bill gives autonomy to Scotland in the supply and generation of electricity. That is nonsense. It is not only just nonsense but completely dishonest of the Government to suggest that there is a vestige of autonomy given to Scotland under the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.155.1", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Gas and coal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "ble to stress once again, in the course of a short speech, that there are very sound economic and technical reasons why the amalgation of the boards in the Lowland areas of Scotland should have been carried through. First, I should like to say that in the 1950 election the Unionist Party in Scotland was quite unequivocal in what it wished to do in regard to electricity generation and distribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "s oil or diesel driven stations—six methods of generating electricity within one country that has just five millions of population. That diversity is not to be found anywhere else in the world. The point I make is that the lesser the number of authorities that control that diversity of operations, the more efficient should the operations become and the greater the economy in coal that is achieved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Palmer", "preceding_text": " straight, and we did that in two notable instances. We have thrown out those futile Clauses, 4 and 5, which took up space and added printer's ink to paper without communicating, either good sense or direction to the industry; and we succeeded in amending the Schedule to the Bill in such a way as to preserve the important principle of United Kingdom negotiations for salaries, wages and conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ELECTRICITY REORGANISATION (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. James Stuart)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. James Stuart)", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Kidderminster (Mr Nabarro)—we believe in the Bill because we believe in decentralisation. Our object in introducing the Bill and in achieving this measure of decentralisation was to obtain closer contact with the consumer, who never seems to be mentioned in these debates, and to see that his needs, which we in Scotland understand best, are attended to as far as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.175.6", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1952–53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": " It may have thought that the average cost was 4d. when it was in fact only 2d.—or, probably, in the Canal Zone, Is. In fairness to the firm concerned, the Government ought to have a chance to reply, but I am sure, Sir Charles, you would rule the hon. Gentleman out of order if he tried to. It is not the hon. Gentleman's fault that he cannot reply, and I am sorry the Secretary of State is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.175.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1952–53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Dalton) who has filled the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1952–53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ise, of the principle of virement to this Vote. I have simply called attention to an amount of £14,900,000 which has presumably been overpaid, and in much the same terms as those used by my hon. and learned Friend. He called attention to the preceding item, where we are involved on expenditure on fruit in the Middle East. He called attention to that fact, and to other matters in this Excess Vote.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-12", "file": "debates1954-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "52b55c84ddfcd315", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.232.5", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREENWICH HOSPITAL AND TRAVERS' FOUNDATION", "cue_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Commander Pursey", "preceding_text": "sary to go to a school of the choice of his parents, and other means are found to enable that child to mix with his contemporaries and get into the walk of life his parents or guardians decided, why should a seaman's son have his career decided at 11 without any option. If any hon. Gentleman opposite thinks I am wrong, he had better check it up. You have got the information. I have got to seek it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-12a.232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is it not also the case, judging from the Chancellor's original answer, that the man with £500 a year who has two children, nevertheless now has a purchasing power which is £24 less than it was in 1951; or, if not £24 gross, then £24 net, which was £12 less than in 1951?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.258.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.258.6", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "Is not such a family in the position of being £12 worse off than under the Labour Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.258.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "Does that answer mean that if we can afford to take an extended holiday abroad we obtain privileges, whereas if we cannot afford to do so we do not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.261.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.262.7", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which ones?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "How much of this £5 million was expended by the dockers of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.262.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "Is the Chancellor aware of the knowledge possessed by everybody now that these regulations are substantially ignored—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.263.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.269.0", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "isition properties unless the local authority could give an assurance that the people in them would be rehoused before the properties were derequisitioned? Is the hon. Gentleman further aware that the town clerk of Southport sent out a letter on 18th June last in which he stated: …request you to take immediate steps to find alternative accommodation, and if you fail to vacate the premises\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.268.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.269.7", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut. -Colonel Bromley -Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut. -Colonel Bromley -Davenport", "preceding_text": "Is it not infra dig, Mr. Speaker, for an hon. Member of this House to ask a Question relating to another hon. Member's constituency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.269.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "I am waiting to do so, and intend to do so whatever happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Braddock", "preceding_text": "o take appropriate steps to have you evicted from the premises. Will the Minister say if this is within the terms of the letter which he sent to Southport? Will he please hold this matter up in view of the fact that a number of families—one with eight children—are to be put on the streets next Monday unless he does something about it? Mr. Speaker, on a point of order. Can I say this with reference", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.274.2", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman not now doing what the Government are persistently doing, namely, trying to claim credit to this Government for the activities of a Labour majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.274.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.274.5", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the Government are claiming the credit for the achievements of the local authority which happens to have a Labour majority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.274.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " character, being development which consists wholly or mainly of the construction of houses, flats, shop or office premises, or industrial buildings (including warehouses), or any combination thereof. This Amendment is a redraft of Clause 24 in simpler form to meet the criticism which was originally made on both sides of the Standing Committee. In the first place it gets rid of the Sixth Schedule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.371.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.413.6", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Make it short.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (Mr. Ernest Marples)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, \"That the Bill be now read the Third time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.413.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-13", "file": "debates1954-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "2c8a09cffa5b1ac9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A shock.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horobin", "preceding_text": "exception, it has been a Conservative Government which has brought us extremely near, if not all the way, to town planning without compensation. It is very peculiar, but I think that the amount of compensation that will be paid out under our town planning procedure when this Bill becomes law will be less than many people imagine. So far from it being a bonus to landlords it will be, in many cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-13a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Logan", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that I live on the spot and I see congestion at this bottleneck every day of the week—except when I am here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ANGLO-EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "It may well be, Mr. Speaker, that the Minister has not had an opportunity of asking your permission, but in view of the latest news of the resignation of the hon. and gallant Member for the Isle of Ely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are still allowed to debate and not merely to yelp from below the Gangway. It was one long criticism against the United States—[HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsensel—and, of course, of advancing the importance, if not the virtues, of Communist China. The right hon. Gentleman spoke of the entry of China into the United Nations organisation. I thought the statement I made on Monday covered that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I see any reason why at some subsequent date Formosa should not be treated in the manner which the right hon Gentleman described, and placed in the custody of the United Nations. I know that the right hon. Gentleman does not want to harm our relations with the United States; but I can assure him that the speech he has made, although so temperately expressed, will undoubtedly make a bad impression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ise this question of the entry of Communist China into the United Nations at present. We think that September is the first time that it can be raised, and we believe that it might be better for all concerned, and for all the interests represented, that it should be postponed until a later period. I must point out to the Committee—before you start shouting with anger at me who has done you no harm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.496.4", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the 1922 Committee?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "of Commons, but I am very doubtful whether it would be a good thing to begin negotiations by a categorical statement of terms which would almost invest them with an air of an ultimatum, because one thing plays in with another and has to be balanced against another, and in these conversations it is a good thing to keep little things open at the same time and then probably find agreement among them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.496.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": " the situation, too. Only a week ago Major Saleh Salem made a remarkable speech in which he said: We cannot fight Palestine with the British lurking behind our backs. I am quite sure that the Prime Minister was never a man to spoil sport. I do, not know whether he thought it was frightfully mean to be lurking behind the backs of the Egyptians and stopping them from their bit of sport in Palestine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": " the Governor's Council should be removed and replaced by a strong pro-Egyptian. It is true that in the first place, the matter came up for decision by the Sudanese Parliament, but we had to agree to it. Why did we agree to it? Six weeks ago we were told that 23 or 24 senior officers of the Sudanese Defence Force were being summarily dismissed. They were given a month's notice, like a farm worker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.519.0", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": ", and it is the duty of the Chiefs of Staff to follow that policy. Once they have been given a clear line they have to adapt themselves wholeheartedly to it, just as civil servants adopt wholeheartedly policies put forward by any Minister. Thereafter, it is extremely hard to say what was initiated by the politicians and what was the real view of the soldiers. I have kept the Committee long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.522.2", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unfair?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bellenger", "preceding_text": "It is a little unfair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.522.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Daises", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Daises", "preceding_text": " more widely read. This is Karl Marx himself, writing in 1867, and we must remember that he knew Russia well: The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics and its manoeuvres may change, but the polar star of its policy—world domination—is a fixed star. I make that as a present to those hon. Members who claim an association or even a nodding acquaintance with the philosophy of Marx.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.551.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.551.4", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the answer?", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "It is a little unfair to me that, in the middle of developing a policy, I should be interrupted just as I am coming to a point at which I could answer that clearly. I repeat the remark I have heard made in the House many times, \"Perhaps I may be allowed to make my own speech in my own way.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.551.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.554.3", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major H. Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "the very simple reason that not enough people today realise the consequences of unleashing hydrogen warfare. The duty of all Governments throughout the world today is to make all their people better informed as to what the prospects of warfare on that scale would be. If any Government thereafter deliberately ran the risk of engaging its country in war, its life in office would be very short-lived.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.554.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.555.1", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": " the same moment say that we believe in the increase or the maintenance of national sovereignty and at the same time say that we believe in pooling our national sovereignty in some such organisation as the United Nations. It is here that the Conservative Party in particular, and, I believe, the country at large, must do a great deal of thinking if it is to steer this country through in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Glover", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Glover", "preceding_text": "nt of a government favourable to the West, shall in any treaty be forbidden to form an alliance or association with the Western nations? If that means anything at all, what the hon. Lady really means is that any negotiations with the Russians for the reunification of Germany shall be carried out on the basis that, once reunification is complete, the whole of Germany shall go into the Eastern zone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.575.3", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Savory", "preceding_text": "The boundaries were fixed by an independent boundary commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.575.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.575.7", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Savory", "preceding_text": "I admit that at the last Election we lost Belfast, West by 25 votes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.575.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.594.7", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT CHARGES, &c. (MIS CELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not here now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "I hope that you will not accept the Motion, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. My right hon. Friend is, of couse, just on his way into the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.594.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.595.0", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT CHARGES, &c. (MIS CELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I did not accept the Motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.595.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.597.5", "colnum": "597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT CHARGES, &c. (MIS CELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I probably did not hear, but I understood that the Parliamentary Secretary did move the first Amendment, to page 2, line 29.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.597.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1952–53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "e attention of the Chairman of Ways and Means to the fact that the whole record shows that on previous occasions on the Appropriation Accounts a reply was made by a Service Minister. We have that happy position in 1951, and in 1952, when, unfortunately, there was a change of Government. The hon. Member for Blackpool, North (Mr. Low) who held a junior Ministerial position at the War Office in 1952—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1952–53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" the Ministry of Supply.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "propriation Accounts a reply was made by a Service Minister. We have that happy position in 1951, and in 1952, when, unfortunately, there was a change of Government. The hon. Member for Blackpool, North (Mr. Low) who held a junior Ministerial position at the War Office in 1952—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The hon. Member held a Ministerial position at the time and I thought that he was at the War Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-14", "file": "debates1954-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "21252203ad8ac05c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.631.0", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMY AND AIR EXPENDITURE, 1952–53", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "951, and in 1952, when, unfortunately, there was a change of Government. The hon. Member for Blackpool, North (Mr. Low) who held a junior Ministerial position at the War Office in 1952—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] The hon. Member held a Ministerial position at the time and I thought that he was at the War Office—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No,\" the Ministry of Supply.\"] I thought that he replied as Minister in 1952—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-14a.631.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-15", "file": "debates1954-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7ca53a70caa33112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-15a.662.4", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speech!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "tary of the union that if he put in a request for a certain number of copies it would be dealt with expeditiously? The difficulty in which the general secretary finds himself is that he has not yet received his ordered 250 copies, while the general public, who are not so intimately concerned, are able to buy as many copies as they like from the Stationery Office or from the public bookstalls, and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-15a.662.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-15", "file": "debates1954-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7ca53a70caa33112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-15a.695.6", "colnum": "695", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not Scotch, Scottish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "Of course, it is the normal practice to give a certain time to Scotch affairs at this time of the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-15a.695.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-15", "file": "debates1954-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7ca53a70caa33112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-15a.698.4", "colnum": "698", "heading": "MINISTRY OF MATERIALS (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Pipe down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-15a.698.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-15", "file": "debates1954-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7ca53a70caa33112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-15a.702.9", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has been here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "posed of business people, trade unionists, members of local authorities and others concerned with the economic and social life of Scotland, Mr. Tom Johnston was responsible for a remarkable piece of vision. I understand that the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Sir W. Darling) was the first chairman, and I think we should pay a tribute to him, although I do not see him in his place at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-15a.702.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-15", "file": "debates1954-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "7ca53a70caa33112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-15a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"James Watt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bence", "preceding_text": "Scotland, the very country which started the whole thing. It is a tremendous shock to realise this. I do not like statistics; I think that they are very dangerous things; but I see that Scotland's income is £20 per head less than that of the rest of the country and yet their savings are £2 per head more. People do not invest money in Scotland. They make it in Scotland and invest it somewhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-15a.785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-16", "file": "debates1954-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0a0ae6338c4e521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-16a.928.1", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, head", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "iculture\"—and so on. In no case need he come to the House and say, \"Do you think this is right?\" Or, \"Do you think that is wrong?\" This Bill gives to the Minister almost dictatorial powers, and I suggest that an undertaking should be given to consider the submission of major schemes to the House by Statutory Instrument for consideration and for discussion. My third point is on the question of gas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-16a.928.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-16", "file": "debates1954-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0a0ae6338c4e521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-16a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "from the pithead, whereas when one visits the installations of the other three industries, one is struck by the control system of what I might call the room with the hundred dials. Two or three men are inspecting the elaborate control panels which register the revolutions of the mighty turbines or the flow of hot gases through gigantic retorts.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 9th July,1954: Vol. 529, c. 2508.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-16a.933.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-16", "file": "debates1954-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "f0a0ae6338c4e521", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-16a.942.6", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS AND ELECTRICITY (BORROWING POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "The Patronage Secretary is here and he must realise that if he wants to get his business he should treat the House better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-16a.942.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.963.3", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman is no doubt also aware, more than two-thirds of these Income Tax concessions went to people of comparatively small incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1033.2", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "bly at that time they could not use any more powers than those which they had been given, because of the functional structure of the Railway Executive which has now been abolished. The right hon. Gentleman says that they could not use more power, which, in my view, proves the need for a proper board of directors to be behind the area manager in order to advise him and help him to use those powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1033.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Gentleman wants me to go into that. If he will look at it, he will see that this scheme provides for a Scottish Area Board with equal status with each of the others. There will be area boards all over the country, operating in complete equality, while at the centre there will be the British Transport Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1036.2", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclay", "preceding_text": "delivery and therefore they got orders which we could not get. For the bigger type of ship we are still quoting about two years' delivery. For the smaller vessels the position is different. The hon. and learned Member told us that production was held up by a shortage of ships' plates. He also said—of all the astonishing things—that denationalisation was responsible for the shortage of steel plate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1036.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1051.6", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Robertson", "preceding_text": "e will want to do it again. We come here week in and week out, we grow very tired and exhausted by this time of the year and we want a rest—and I am all in favour of that; but if the Secretary of State invited us to sit in Glasgow for a day or two, or in Edinburgh for a day or two, or on the Borders or in Inverness for a day or two, we should be able to have a fact-finding tour of our own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1051.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1089.0", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"One has to have brains to think.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with that point later in my speech. Last year, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour said that what was wanted was new thinking. We all agreed with him. The Government have had a further year to think anew—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1089.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Henderson Stewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Henderson Stewart)", "preceding_text": "until the chap o'nine of the hon. Lady. It is clear that the hon. Lady did not agree with the attitude taken by a great many of her hon. Friends. She felt that something had to be done to brighten up the party, to put a little more pep into it and a little more partisan examination. That is the hon. Lady; we know her and we like her and we expect that from her, and we do not take it too seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "It is no use the hon. Lady standing up and saying, \"There is no policy.\" There is the result of the policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "not many years ago when the considered opinion of Glasgow was against the creation of any new towns. And now, here is the hon. Member for Glasgow, Central asking us to build six new towns. I say to the Committee that in such a vastly important matter as this, with implications that will affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of our fellow countrymen, it would be foolish to dash into a solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1103.2", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Friend the Member for Renfrew, West said, a Scottish board, composed, we hope, of the best men we can find in Scotland, it ought to be possible to have a much closer contact between the railway authorities and the users and a much better understanding of Scotland's needs. It would be a place to which people from the Highlands and from other areas could come in Scotland to represent their problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-19", "file": "debates1954-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "295b571b86c3674a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1103.2", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND (INDUSTRY AND EMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ry. The Disposal Board in its Reports has said exactly what it is going to do. The right hon. Member for East Stirlingshire has always been afraid that the network of the parcels services which has been built up, whose value I have always recognised, would be smashed up. As I have told the right hon. Gentleman from this Box, I never anticipated that that would happen and it is not going to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-19a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1148.0", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not interested.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "I am always willing to see hon. Members of this House, as they well know, and I shall be happy to meet the hon. Member immediately concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1168.3", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (RE-ARMAMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "That is not the usual forthcoming answer that we expect from the Prime Minister. If the Leader of the Official Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1168.3", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GERMANY (RE-ARMAMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " usual forthcoming answer that we expect from the Prime Minister. If the Leader of the Official Opposition—[ Laughter. ] Mr. Speaker. I was going on to ask for an assurance when I was rudely interrupted by the shouting of hon. Gentlemen on the Government Benches, and I would therefore repeat my question. Can we have an assurance that if an approach is made by the Leader of the Official Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1168.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (Sir Thomas Dugdale)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who were they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (Sir Thomas Dugdale)", "preceding_text": " as to what action may be necessary to maintain public confidence in the administration of Departments. The Government thought it right that the need for any such action should be further reviewed. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister arranged for a small advisory Committee of experienced persons to review this aspect of the matter. They have completed their task swiftly and presented a report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1188.1", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "I would ask my hon. Friend to await the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "the functions and organisation of the Land Commission. I turn to the question of the disposal of agricultural land. In the past the conception of the Agricultural Land Commission has been that it would retain the management of properties even after improving them. It is no part of this Government's philosophy that the State should continue to own and manage any agricultural land suitable for sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir T. Dugdale", "preceding_text": "ss, the Government will in future consider each case on its merits with the desire that, where circumstances show that the land can properly be offered to a former owner or his successor who can establish his claim, this will be done at a price assessed by the district valuer as being the current market price. This procedure cannot be applied retrospectively; it can only apply to future disposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "preceding_text": "The last sentence of the right hon. Gentleman's speech obviously makes this moment—as it must for those who have known him longer than I have: I have known him for 10 years—a very uncomfortable one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "preceding_text": " I feel it my duty to put our case as I see it none the less for that. The only other personal thing which perhaps the Minister will permit me to say to him is this. His announcements about new policy, in so far as I could follow them, frightened me very considerably. He told the country that the food position was so materially altered that the best agricultural use of the land no longer mattered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "preceding_text": " me to say to him is this. His announcements about new policy, in so far as I could follow them, frightened me very considerably. He told the country that the food position was so materially altered that the best agricultural use of the land no longer mattered. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Members will find that I cannot be shouted down. He said that the best agricultural use of land no longer mattered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "preceding_text": "ce in the light of what we have heard, and although I did not take a great deal of notice of it at the time, I can repeat what he said pretty accurately. He said, \"I cannot tell you any more about it than you already know; but I say to you, cut as had as you can at this Government because they are being an unmitigated disaster to British agriculture.\" He said, \"They are destroying our confidence.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "preceding_text": "shuffle, as back benchers opposite have tried to do, the whole responsibility on to civil servants instead of where it ought to be, on the Administration, is I think quite wrong. I think that what has really happened in the Ministry of Agriculture is that the civil servants there have been, because of the switches and changes of policy and because of the repeated intervention of other Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "preceding_text": "le responsibility on to civil servants instead of where it ought to be, on the Administration, is I think quite wrong. I think that what has really happened in the Ministry of Agriculture is that the civil servants there have been, because of the switches and changes of policy and because of the repeated intervention of other Departments—[ Interruption. ]—I am not putting the onus on the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "preceding_text": "und. So the Department could not even have offered back to Commander Marten at that stage land capable of being used as a sheep run. There are the same ill-considered policy decisions taken in panic time after time. If hon. Members opposite want to make their own policy effective, they cannot offer the land back for sale until the Land Commission or somebody has had it in order to rehabilitate it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Brown (Belper)", "preceding_text": "t that stage land capable of being used as a sheep run. There are the same ill-considered policy decisions taken in panic time after time. If hon. Members opposite want to make their own policy effective, they cannot offer the land back for sale until the Land Commission or somebody has had it in order to rehabilitate it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] Because at that point it is of no use to anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1194.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No, I cannot give way. What I think intolerable was the interference with the Agricultural Land Commission in the carrying out of its duty through the Minister being subject to enormous political pressure from the party machine behind them and in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1203.1", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members opposite will have to draw their own conclusions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1206.3", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " careful about the terms he used, but in paragraph 8 on page 28 he says: ( b ) The previous owners were anxious to repurchase their respective holdings and would have paid a total of about £21,000 for the land in its then condition. ( c ) The previous owners were all first class farmers and could have been relied upon to farm their respective areas properly\"— But all the previous owners were dead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1206.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Another splinter group.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "is. My right hon. Friend has been grappling with many major problems and has reached many important decisions in recent months. He and my right hon. and gallant Friend the Minister of Food have done well to bring freedom into the food markets while safeguarding home agricultural production. The country will appreciate that more as time goes on, and so will some of my hon. Friends on these benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1217.3", "colnum": "1217", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Richard Acland", "preceding_text": "hem with his virtue from the dismissal which ought to be their just reward? That is the question which the middle-class Press has asked the House to examine today. I think that we must examine a quite different question in the realm of social psychology. It is: How can it happen that a trained Q.C., a leader of Chancery, can release a pent-up organism of vilification and abuse over civil servants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1224.1", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "If Lord Carrington had been a junior Civil Servant instead of a Tory Minister, this impartial Q.C. would have chased him up hill and down dale as to why—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1224.6", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "h knew of the complaint and had any duty to deal with it at all. What did the Minister do on that occasion? There he sat in his capacity as buyer and seller of the land, deciding in that moment what was to happen to it. By his positive act of selling it or agreeing that it should be sold to Crown Land, he decided that it should not be sold to Commander Marten. By his neglect—gross neglect, surely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1224.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1241.1", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "nd we can then decide, in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture, what if anything we need to do, at least to appear to implement the promises made to them. What does that mean? It means, \"We can decide what letter we can write which will put these people off.\" It means, \"Agree upon a dodge so that they will not think about complaining.\" This is about as near a thing to fraud as I have seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who does not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. N. Evans", "preceding_text": "ot a very pretty story, and one gets the impression occasionally of a word which has not yet been used, \"conspiracy\"—I am not going to challenge the motives of these people. They were out for something which they thought to be in the national interest. There was excess of zeal. I can see how it came about. Those who think the pre-eminence of their own ideas is synonymous with the national interest", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1250.1", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the connection?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Tozer filled the bill. Here they had a man who was already farming, and they did not have to place this proposed experiment in the hands of someone who was not so happily circumstanced as Mr. Tozer. Really, there are other aspects. The Minister, in a way, is a victim of the same kind of thing that caused the hon. and gallant Member for the Isle of Ely (Major Legge-Bourke) to resign from his party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "y object. The argument has gone on for so long because, apparently, the Minister thought it was a worthy object, and the Parliamentary Secretaries thought so too. It is only at this last stage that the Tory backwoodsmen insist that the Tory Minister of Agriculture should act as Tory Ministers of Agriculture have always acted—that is, to have regard solely to the interests of the land-owning class.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1251.3", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "l interests, As it is, it reflects very little credit on the benches opposite that this good man should have been hounded from his post. On the other hand, none of us can be unaware of the unfortunate exhibition that has been put up by certain civil servants in this connection. If there is one thing that the world envies us, it is our civil servants. From Madagascar to Valparaiso, I have listened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1251.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maclay", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not his property.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maclay", "preceding_text": "s) is just leaving the Chamber, and in the circumstances I do not blame him. My colleagues and I who sit on this bench as Members of the Liberal-Unionist group in the House believe, as do my hon. and right hon. Friends who also sit on this side, that a very important principle has been involved throughout this whole problem. That is, the straightforward right of the individual to his own property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1270.5", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He was responsible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Lambton", "preceding_text": "ay, in the vindication of the Civil Service's ability to make the grossest type of mistake and still maintain itself in office while the Minister accepts responsibility for those mistakes. It is true that we have lost Mr. Eastwood, but we have not lost any of the civil servants. We have, on the other hand, lost the Minister because he has made himself responsible in a noble way for those mistakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1270.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "We ran ourselves hard, too, and, as my hon. Friend says, they worked hard and they were adaptable and capable. I am taking the service as a whole. Here and there there were exceptions, but as a whole the Government, the House of Commons and the British people owe a deep debt of gratitude to the Civil Service for its ability, its capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " and the British people owe a deep debt of gratitude to the Civil Service for its ability, its capacity—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We are getting on nicely. This is an example of how the art of persuasion should be pursued. But, above all, what we are most proud of is its integrity, its public spirit, its incorruptibility, and its willingness to be loyal to one Government as much as to another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Are you not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "this side of the House to suspect some bias. I say this with regret. There are in the Report a substantially noticeable number of assertions which are not true. There is a little slip in nomenclature which I do not mind, but which indicates the political outlook of the gentleman who wrote it. Hon. Members will notice that in Conservative newspapers we are always referred to as the Socialist Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tammany Hall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ounce and defend a policy with which we know in our hearts he does not really agree. Would it not have been wiser for him to have stood his ground and said, \"I adhere to the policy which I have been pursuing.\" And if the Prime Minister or the Government or, more properly, the 1922 Committee who now function as what the Soviet Union would call an enlarged Cabinet, almost an enlarged Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ight today. The test of these policies, which the Minister had been pursuing, and the only crime he committed, is that in some respects he followed the policy of my right hon. Friend. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\") Yes. Hon. Members opposite and their Government will be ruined by their dogmas and doctrinaire beliefs. One of their dogmas is that if something was done by a Labour Government it must be wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "is happening. I will not go through all the instances. Television was not wanted. It was forced on the Government by not more than 20 hon. Members opposite. Then there was Members' pay. There was a Report by a Select Committee, followed by a free vote of the House, and that free vote was ignored by order of an irresponsible band of M.P.s upstairs. That has never happened under a Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "They were handling this matter day by day. Their responsibility was not less than that of the Minister himself. Today, therefore, we condemn the Government on the following grounds: First, administrative incompetence; secondly, undue back bench pressure. I am in favour of a reasonable amount of back bench pressure. It is a pleasure to handle it. I say that there has been undue back bench pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Select Committee on Members' Expenses.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "outh to do no more than consider it. I think that it is one of the problems of Government, and I know that he is interested in them. When a Government appoint an inquiry, whatever the complexion of the Government, I think that they ought to be bound by findings of fact which the person who holds the inquiry comes to, unless some new evidence is discovered the existence of which he did not realise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1291.0", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "CRICHEL DOWN", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Maxwell Fyfe", "preceding_text": "lear by my right hon. Friend that the price should be the current market price fixed by the same person who fixed the price at which the land was bought, the district valuer. I do not believe that that can be construed by hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite, when they have time to think it over, as a sinister change. It is only the reinforcement once again of the need of justice to individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1291.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1299.4", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Bing", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends on this side, much as they were distressed with some of the provisions in this Bill, felt that the needs of the Isle of Man were such that the Bill should have an unopposed Committee stage. The House would be failing in its duty, however, if it did not consider for a few moments whether we ought to pass at all a Bill of this nature. If I can put the thing in a nutshell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-20", "file": "debates1954-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "bec1fe4551fb9dc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ISLE OF MAN (CUSTOMS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And they are open all day.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hudson", "preceding_text": "re say that there is one class of persons in the Isle of Man, the type of people who would be expected to run in harness there with the brewers. I am, of course, referring to certain types of hotel keeper and lodging house keeper who, with greater facilities in the Isle of Man, because of different legislation, make available to visitors the beer and other intoxicating drinks which come their way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-20a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1360.6", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS (FUTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that British prestige in Greece is rapidly falling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1360.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1360.6", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CYPRUS (FUTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mallalieu", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that British prestige in Greece is rapidly falling—[HON. MEMBERS: No.\"]—as a result of the failure of Her Majesty's Government to deal with the Cyprus question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1360.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, may I take twice the time in asking my supplementary? May I inform the right hon. and gallant Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, may I take twice the time in asking my supplementary? May I inform the right hon. and gallant Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] May I ask the right hon. and gallant Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why ask, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Mann", "preceding_text": " asking my supplementary? May I inform the right hon. and gallant Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] May I ask the right hon. and gallant Gentleman—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] This noise and laughter amongst hon. Gentlemen opposite indicates vacant minds. May I ask the right hon. and gallant Gentleman if he is aware that I knew perfectly well that he had had no representations from the Housewives' League—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1370.1", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "TRANSFER OF HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"To Scotland.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gibson", "preceding_text": "any other large areas in the country. The L.C.C. had special powers to enable it to go outside the county because of the enormous overcrowding in London. I know that my hon. Friend has taken some part in preaching the need for the proper town planning of London and all our other great cities, but in the case of London we should have to decant at least 500,000 Londoners to somewhere outside London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1372.2", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ch cannot afford to wait. Dangling an increase of pension before an old-age pensioner to whom a year or even a few months represents a large proportion of his expectation of life is heartless. I will now refer to the cost of living, which will no doubt provoke a reply from the Minister. In assessing the cost of living, we should be increasingly critical of the validity of the cost of living index.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1372.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1379.3", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "ds was only 93 per cent. of what the B.M.A. considered necessary. I now compare that period, three years ago, with the first quarter of this current year, 1954. First, for all households the standard of consumption has risen from 100 per cent. in 1951 to 104 per cent. in 1954. That is an improvement upon which we may congratulate ourselves. People are better fed now than they were three years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1380.3", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "There is a bigger improvement in consumption in the pensioner household over the last three years than there is for the population taken as a whole. Three years ago pensioners were getting on an average 7 per cent. less calories than the B.M.A. considered necessary, whereas they are now getting 9 per cent. in excess of the standard requirement. Those are striking figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1380.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1384.5", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I have not those figures at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1384.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1389.3", "colnum": "1389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows as well as I do what is the contributory basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Before the General Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "d to expedite his review now in progress. I am sure that it will give satisfaction to hon. Members to hear that the report of the Government Actuary and the report of the Phillips Committee, which we eagerly await, will both be available early in the next Session of Parliament, that is to say, in time to enable us to consider what action we shall recommend to Parliament before the end of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "of the Phillips Committee, which we eagerly await, will both be available early in the next Session of Parliament, that is to say, in time to enable us to consider what action we shall recommend to Parliament before the end of the year. [HON MEMBERS: \"Before the General Election.\"] It is for those reasons that I urge the House to reject the Motion and to accept the Amendment. I should like to end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1426.3", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER \"The Means test.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "ing shopping. It is such a worry going from one place to another trying to get something.\" That must have been said to hon. Members opposite, too, but they conveniently forget it. I am not suggesting that 32s. 6d. a week keeps anybody. It does not and we all know it, but there are other facilities available to pensioners. One has already been touched upon many times, and it is National Assistance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Pitt", "preceding_text": "subsequent meeting which I attended in Kent, what I said regarding the Co-op. ladies and their failure to send me information appeared in the local Press. A week later a cutting was sent to me from a Kentish newspaper saying that the old-age pensioners' federation had had a meeting in the area to discuss my comments. They had held their meeting at the local Labour hall, which was very interesting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1457.0", "colnum": "1457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "The fact is that the basic pension, in general, was increased from 45s. to 55s. per week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1457.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1465.0", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. N. Browne", "preceding_text": "try: The Chancellor of the Exchequer has kindly described you, the old aged pensioners of the country, as a 'first priority'. My right hon. Friend did make that statement. This journal goes on to say: —so the next time you cook your Sunday dinner of a few potatoes, a little onion and an Oxo cube stick out your neck and say, 'I am a first priority.' It might make you feel better, though I doubt it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1465.2", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "There may not be so many \"Hear, hears\" when I read on. Don't these people make you sick? People who smoke cigars which cost as much as your pension\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1465.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1467.1", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "I consider that the old-age pensioner is the number one priority; hon. Gentlemen opposite consider him the number two priority. They get their wages first—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1479.2", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": " at them he will see that he made a mistake which it is very easy to make—he mistook the date of publication for the date of the survey. Old-age pension rates under the 1946 Act became payable in October of that year. They were fixed in advance of the other benefits, which came into operation two years later, in July, 1948. They were fixed at 26s. for a single person and 42s. for a married couple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1480.2", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONS AND BENEFITS (INCREASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "was 69 per cent. above September, 1939. I am not at all surprised that the right hon. Lady said in her speech today that she was becoming increasingly critical of the cost-of-living index. Unhappy statesmen! They would have been better cast as courtiers to Canute. Having dealt with the first two statements of the preamble, I must now come to the main proposition which the House is asked to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-21", "file": "debates1954-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1606ca8ae98b71d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1510.1", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — First Schedule.—(PROOF OF PAST REPAIRS BY LANDLORD.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Impertinent\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "While the Government are seeking the answers to the many pertinent questions by my hon. and learned Friend", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-21a.1510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1548.0", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "ick quarters at Haverigg Aerodrome has been conveyed to the Special Areas Committee, and, if so, what has been the decision? Secondly, can he use his influence with the Special Areas Committee to make special arrangements for the relatives of these chronic patients to be conveyed to places like Carlisle, Sunderland and Middlesbrough until they can be returned to the West Cumberland area? Thirdly,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1556.2", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": " that a constituent of mine was nearly killed in one of these vehicles, because of neglect in this matter, that I have since had a series of buck-passing letters from the Ministry about this case, and that I was assured only three weeks ago that the same vehicle, in which was a party of children, ran downhill backwards owing to the cylinder head blowing off and because the brakes were not working?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1556.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1557.0", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "That is quite a different question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1557.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1557.5", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is satisfied that, in general, the essential requirements of Circular 245 can be met by local education authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1557.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1557.5", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Whitehall knows best.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is satisfied that, in general, the essential requirements of Circular 245 can be met by local education authorities—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—within the limits of the building programme allowed. As to the comparison between the proportion allotted and the amounts asked for, it is fair to remember that not all education authorities are equally scrupulous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1557.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1563.18", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Until when?", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "If all necessary business has been disposed of, including any further Amendments to Bills which may be received from another place, it is hoped to adjourn for the Summer Recess on Friday, 30th July.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1563.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1565.1", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ham, South (Mr. H. Morrison) had in mind, with which I entirely agree, was that after the official Opposition had taken a certain amount of time on that day for a Motion which they wish to put on the Order Paper, we would then pass to the Motion for the Adjournment. What subjects would be discussed on that Motion would no doubt be a matter for agreement and consultation between the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1565.4", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is ' we '? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "Am I to understand that the general statement on business which my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House has just made was the statement to which the Prime Minister referred a few minutes ago? If so, it does not help us very much. We had hoped that on a matter to which, as my right hon. Friend knows, we attach very great importance we would have a specific assurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1565.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1599.2", "colnum": "1599", "heading": "Orders of the Day — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyftelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyftelton", "preceding_text": "ich enabled this multi-racial Government to be formed. Hon. Members in all parts of the Committee must realise what it means, when people are being murdered, to make this advance. I was surprised by the extent of the Liberal opinion. I know of no political opinion in any country which is universal, but the general European, opinion backed up, and is backing up, the idea of multi-racial government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1599.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I do not know, because I never had a kneehole desk when I was a fourth-form schoolboy. Perhaps I was not brought up with such high-class people as the noble Lord. I call it a desk; but they call it a pedestal desk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": ", that there ought to be better supervision of the temperature in rooms. If visitors in the Galleries were allowed to take part in our proceedings now is the moment when they ought to break into loud applause. The Select Committee recommended that there should be a silent annunciator put up in the Chamber, so that people in the public Galleries may know who is performing on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS ACCOMMODATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "nt under unified control, and the sooner that is done the better. I would comment particularly on one feature of the other place. I cannot understand why, as the October Report indicates on page 14, the Lord High Chancellor was allowed to remove the whole of his Government Department from the Law Courts and into the House of Lords. The Palace is a congested slum area, but the Lord High Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-22", "file": "debates1954-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "de7268686f8bba9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1724.4", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RAW COTTON COMMISSION (DISSOLUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Nelson and Colne?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has lived too long near Merseyside to suppose that we regard Crosby as being part of Liverpool. If that is the best that he can do in defence of the Liverpool Members, I think he might better retain his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-22a.1724.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-23", "file": "debates1954-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "042a6d3ea14b2aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1763.1", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "is persistent pressure, have they decided, after first giving us two hours, to save their face by giving us the whole day? From Questions asked in the House the Government have learned that they can no longer keep quiet what amounts to a public scandal. They have put a bold face on it and the Parliamentary Secretary has been given the job—and I quite understand why—to come here and bluster it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-23", "file": "debates1954-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "042a6d3ea14b2aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1765.3", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Draft.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "gienic practices. These regulations which, as I say, are the essence of the Bill, are of the utmost importance indeed, without them the Bill would be a fairly small Measure. To reject these highly desirable regulations is completely to emasculate the Bill and render it ineffective The regulations have already been prepared, following the passage of the Bill in another place, and those regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-23", "file": "debates1954-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "042a6d3ea14b2aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1765.5", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "t elements\"—supported by certain Conservative Members of Parliament, have demanded that these proposals, designed to safeguard the people's health, should be dropped or modified in such a way as to render the most important useless—and the Minister has surrendered. The price which the Minister of Food is prepared to pay to have the pressure group called off him is the price of the people's health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1765.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-23", "file": "debates1954-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "042a6d3ea14b2aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1769.3", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Sununerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Sununerskill", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I thought I had carefully explained that these were the draft proposals which were sent out. The catering interests were invited to make comments on them; comments have been made, and now the revised draft has been put into my hand, marked in this way not by me, but by the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1769.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-23", "file": "debates1954-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "042a6d3ea14b2aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "preceding_text": "ions, because the regulations have not been made. They have only be issued for comment, and one of the disadvantages of the right hon. Lady's attack on draft regulations will be this. It will have the effect of discouraging Ministers and civil servants in the future from publishing in advance draft regulations giving a rough indication of the use which they may contemplate to make of their powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-23", "file": "debates1954-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "042a6d3ea14b2aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1801.1", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": ". I only used this one example as an illustration of the kind of informa- tion on which the right hon. Lady founded a bitter political speech today. Another reason why I support the Bill is that the advances made in recent years, in additions to and subtractions from food, make the first few Clauses of this Bill essential. I think that is recognised everywhere, not least by the Scottish housewife.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-23", "file": "debates1954-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "042a6d3ea14b2aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1801.1", "colnum": "1801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Duncan", "preceding_text": " provisions regarding ice cream and sausages, or to put it briefly, processed meats, to all foods, and suggests registration. I have a personal interest in this matter, because more than 20 years ago I made my maiden speech on the question of sausages and ice cream. They were then put together and have remained together since. They were together in the 1938 Act and are still together in this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-23", "file": "debates1954-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "042a6d3ea14b2aaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1833.8", "colnum": "1833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "erruption, and I want to make a little pro- gress. The hon. Gentleman is fully entitled to say that this matter should not have been in the first draft, but I have explained how it got into the first draft, and it would have been equally an offence, punishable in the same way, to blow in a bag in a food shop, to use a cracked cup, to cut pastry with a dirty knife, or to wrap apples in a newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-23a.1833.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.16.5", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Excellent?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I will certainly take an opportunity of reading this excellent report during the summer Recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.16.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.48.2", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why didn't you pull them down?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Alice Bacon", "preceding_text": " in old schools, whereas those children who have the advantages of living on a new housing estate live in new houses and have new schools. Recently when we were discussing the Housing Repairs and Rents Bill, the Minister of Housing and Local Government said that he was surveying the houses and dividing them into certain categories. There were, first, the slum houses which ought to be knocked down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.48.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Bacon", "preceding_text": "s school is giving all a chance, and it seems to be against the philosophy of the Tory Party to give everybody a fair chance. As I say, my belief in the comprehensive school is based on educational grounds, and I believe that the Minister's opposition is nothing but party political prejudice against giving all children a fair chance. The schools of Eton and Harrow are really comprehensive schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.59.5", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "raph which she will surely have studied on page 40 of the new Report of the Ministry which came out the other day. If hon. Members will look at that graph they will see that it indicates the rate of progress of educational building since the war. The line which shows the contracts completed suddenly takes an upward turn at the end of 1951, just about the time when my right hon. Friend took office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.59.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.63.4", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, there was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "er the control of members of her party, in 1949, asked for an educational building programme of, if I remember rightly, approximately £7 million, which was twice as much as it had managed to do in any previous year, and the late Mr. Tomlinson cut that programme to something in the neighbourhood of £4 million. I do not remember that there was then the same violent outcry from hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.63.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Eden", "preceding_text": "to the introduction of Part III of the Education Act by May, 1957, or as near as possible, we are moving forward to a period in the history of education in this country when we shall gradually do away with independent schools. As far as I understand it, we are trying to move towards a system whereby no schools will be tolerated unless a certain agreed minimum standard is maintained in that school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "a wide outlook on the problems of the world. We have heard a great deal in this debate about the large sums of money now being spent. It is spent on buildings, on transporting children from home to school and back again, etc. We all know extraordinary cases of this sort of thing where a child could easily cycle to school, but a bus is provided for him. We have all heard of many cases such as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.78.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.78.3", "colnum": "78", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "he beauty of their surroundings. The right way to judge the value we are getting for money is by the standard of education which is now being given; how well educated are the children who are now going through the system; and do we accept the fact that all this money now being spent is well spent when it is reported that there is an increasingly higher standard of illiteracy in this country today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.78.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw. Be a man.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Messer", "preceding_text": "May I interrupt my hon. Friend the Member for Workington (Mr. Peart) to ask if he is aware that the authority concerned investigated this case and found that there was no evidence of any indoctrination of children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.92.1", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Renton", "preceding_text": "and 15; but at the comprehensive school it is still later. There is an attempt in both those types of school, to divide the children into classes according to the number of teachers available for the subjects that have to be taught. I concede a point to the Opposition. I have no doctrinal prejudice against comprehensive schools. I suppose I was at what may be described as a \"comprehensive\" school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.92.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL ESTIMATES AND SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES, 1954–55", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Hurd", "preceding_text": "on to go to a grammar school. Many parents have come to see me on this. Of course, finance is a difficult problem for the parent with two or three children who are about to reach the age of 11, but that reinforces the plea which we on these benches have made to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for a tax allowance to be made to parents who wish to send their children to approved independent schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "nd even of some of the universities, one perceives that it will be a bad day for this country if ever we apply a political test to a teacher and put him under any penalty at all for holding any views unless he tries to influence the children in his school in that direction. As one who regards the Tory Party as a greater menace than the Communist Party in this country I want to make it quite clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "d my hon. and learned Friend and the Solicitor-General asked her, I understand, to receive the Northamptonshire Education Committee in order to discuss with her the reasons for eliminating that school in two successive years from the list. Her reply to my hon. and learned Friend, which I have seen, was to the effect that she did not discuss building programmes; that was a matter for the officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.144.4", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Miss Florence Horsbrugh)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But money has lost its value.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Education (Miss Florence Horsbrugh)", "preceding_text": "lion were spent and in 1951 the figure was £35·5 million. It went down that year after the crisis of 1949. Figures for the next three years are: 1952, £36·4 million; 1953, £40·3 million; and done or to be done in 1954, £40·7 million. If we take educational building as a whole the figures are: 1949, £38 million; 1950, £49·7 million, and 1951, £48·3 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.144.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.146.3", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member will agree that I have pointed that out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.146.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.148.6", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Poor old George!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "ty areas which I have picked at random the reorganisation has meant a reduction of 244 schools. It has been said that I have cut the programmes of local authorities. Each year local authorities send in proposals for the number of schools which they woud like to build. It has been clear that we have to keep—as my predecessor did, and I think he was right, within the scheme outlined in Circular 245—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.148.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.148.6", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "to build put in for far more than they could do, even if they got the authority. Hon. Members may say, \"Ah, but they would not be able to do so, because the planning authority would not pass it\" But it need not of necessity be passed by the planning authority. In many cases local authorities think that if they put in a large list some may be cut out, but the bigger the list the more they will get—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.148.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.150.1", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the names.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "One authority asked for a programme amounting to £1,360,000 and it got a programme of £433,000. On its past performance I am doubtful if it would have been able even to start such a building programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.150.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the comprehensive schools?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Horsbrugh", "preceding_text": "in excess of 40 would be brought about by the admission of children under five. Nor shall I consider that it is right to use a school hall if it is being done for the purpose of admitting children under five, and by children under five I mean children admitted at the beginning of the term at which they become five years of age. In that way, during the next term we shall see some improvement there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.163.3", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "at he might have criticised my appointment. The fact is that we were then faced with very acute shortages. The Board of Trade was very much overburdened, and I think it was right to change over then, so that somebody, at a time when raw materials were short, prices were high, the scarcity was likely to become more rather than less acute, and the danger of war was far more intense than it is today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I did not know, because I am not the Almighty. No one knew these prices would drop and that materials would become more plentiful as and when they have. All the nonsense that politicians talk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "oard of Trade and I were practically entirely right in our anticipation of what was likely to happen. However, leaving that aside, because there is no use boasting about this, if the Government insist on pursuing the charge of the Gadarene swine down the unstoppable slope towards a return to private enterprise everywhere, this is not the time for me to attempt to stop them. Nor do I wish to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Even of the right hon. Gentleman's own business.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "hem. Nor do I wish to do so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] Not for the reason that hon. Gentlemen think. I know that the intended sneer is that I am a great supporter of private enterprise. Well, I am, within reason. I am frank about it. I am, within reason; but I am wholeheartedly in favour of the restriction and control of private enterprise where it interferes with the welfare of the people as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-26", "file": "debates1954-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "3edd0b0bc9e8290a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLASS X", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Immediately.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Osborne", "preceding_text": "ce, because 80 per cent. were originally from the Board of Trade and would be going back there. I wish to ask why the extra 10 per cent. is required in the Board of Trade to carry on fewer functions than existed before the Ministry of Materials was set up? My right hon. Friend said that there would be a reduction of only 10 per cent. and that 90 per cent. would be going back to the Board of Trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-26a.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.217.5", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "Certainly, and, if this is my last word at this Box on this subject, I would say that this is surely something about which the whole country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.217.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the Prime Minister's letter addressed to the Joint Parliamentary Secretaries and published in the Press makes it quite clear that the right hon. Gentleman does not share the opinion that there was any grievous offence caused over Crichel Down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.242.4", "colnum": "242", "heading": "CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL (DEBATE ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "ion was that we wanted a debate on iron and steel. We have very strong feelings about the sale of the iron and steel undertakings to private capitalism. We not only want a debate but a Motion; we not only want a Motion, but a Division. I believe that that is the proper fighting line for the Opposition to take in the matter. If, we left it on the Consolidated Fund Bill, we could not get a division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.242.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does the hon. Gentleman think it is?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "I thought I had dealt with that point when I said that a proper proportion is what a responsible Authority regards as a proper proportion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "cerns, commercial motives and considerations are not to be trusted without certain checks, whereas a public service organisation like the B.B.C. is to be trusted. If the Assistant Postmaster-General is insistent that the B.B.C. must be treated on all fours with the I.T.A., why has he not put forward an Amendment to give the B.B.C. £750,000 a year out of public money, as he is doing for the I.T.A.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.312.2", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "Yes, but in this connection the term \"British\" means Commonwealth citizens, and it also means citizens of Southern Ireland. I am sorry I cannot help the hon. Gentleman about the \"St. Louis Blues.\" I confess I have never heard of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.312.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.340.2", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Any subsequent occasion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchison", "preceding_text": "he Authority no clear directions about matters of the greatest importance—we leave those to its wise discretion—and yet, when it comes to a question of a penalty for a breach of contract, we need only tell it what it is to be on the first, the second, and the third occasion. One supposes that, if there is a fourth occasion—or a fifth or a sixth—that that at any rate will be left to its discretion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.340.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "and learned Gentleman knows. If we transmit a picture of a great boxing event as it is taking place the stadium will be empty. The result will be that there will be no more big promotions. If Wales is playing Ireland at Rugby football and the game is televised at the time it is being played, there will not be a single person attending a football match, for everyone will be watching the television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.352.4", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Houghton", "preceding_text": "s offered by them to members of the public should be brought to their attention. Now supposing a money lender says, \"Wives, why be dependent on your husband for that new hat? Why not buy it the easy-pay way?\" That may not be misleading, it may be an easy-pay way, but is it desirable? Is it improper or is it otherwise undesirable? The Postmaster-General may not ban the football pool advertisements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.352.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TELEVISION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "rliament should have no rights in this respect. 10.0 p.m. We say that Parliament ought to have rights in this respect. My hon. Friend the Member for Preston, South (Mr. Shackle-ton) is absolutely right, for the personal honour of the Assistant Postmaster-General is involved in this matter. It is no use his sitting there cynically smiling as though he did not know what honour meant. I hope he does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.367.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.381.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "I have children, but I do not take the \"News of the World,\" so that has nothing to do with it. I could suggest what I would do with the \"News of the World\" if I did take it, but I do not think the House would wish me to enter into that. My youngest child is 23, and is very much more competent to look after his affairs than I am, and tends to look after me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "ere paid for as part of the programme. He now says the advertisers will put on the children's programme, and the advertisers will pay for it, and the advertisers will not say, \"Now this is an advertisement we are putting over as part of the children's programme.\" I want to put an important point on this matter. A great many people attach a great deal more importance to paying for a television set—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How cheaply?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "advertisers will pay for it, and the advertisers will not say, \"Now this is an advertisement we are putting over as part of the children's programme.\" I want to put an important point on this matter. A great many people attach a great deal more importance to paying for a television set—[ Interruption .] I personally am prepared to sell my television set cheaply to anyone who wants to buy it today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule.—(RULES AS TO ADVERTISEMENTS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Advertising!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": " that will be put over. In the previous debate it appeared that all the advertising agents came from one side of the House, and it was suggested that all were corrupt and dishonest. Well I am about the only director of an advertising company who sits on this side of the House, and so I do not speak free from bias. I am a director of Mass Observation Limited, which has a certain social connotation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.391.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Second Schedule.—(FURTHER PROVISIONS AS TO REPAIR WHERE TENANT RETAINS POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Fletcher", "preceding_text": "no proper consideration by the Government or anyone else. I do not think it fair for this House to be asked to accept an Amendment imposed by the Lords in these circumstances, and I do not think it is just. I invite the Home Secretary, as this is perhaps the last occasion he will have of making some concession to the legitimate claims of tenants, to tell the House he will not press this Amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.426.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-27", "file": "debates1954-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "c35368ac39cf43e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Second Schedule.—(FURTHER PROVISIONS AS TO REPAIR WHERE TENANT RETAINS POSSESSION.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Soskice", "preceding_text": "now recovered sufficiently to give us an answer. The arguments addressed on the previous Amendment were sincerely put in the hope that we should at least have some further explanation. I ask the Solicitor-General, if he is in charge of this Amendment, to take this opportunity of giving us now some sort of reply to the arguments addressed against this series of Amendments, and I hope he will do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-27a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.487.2", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman cares to put down a Question on that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.487.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Am I to understand from the Minister's reply that the Charter of Human Rights does not apply to these people? Are we to understand that coloured people can be treated in any fashion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.488.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.490.1", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I made the matter quite clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The next resignation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Eden", "preceding_text": "ent all the facilities which they require for their work. Her Majesty's Government will also have the necessary facilities for the inspection of these installations. The Heads of Agreement have been initialled by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for War, to whom Her Majesty's Government are much indebted for the decisive part he played in the final stages of these difficult discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Cyprus?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Eden", "preceding_text": "There will be many points of detail to be worked out in the drafting of the Agreement itself. It is the conviction of Her Majesty's Government that this Agreement will preserve our essential requirements in this area in the light of modern conditions. We are convinced that in the Middle East as elsewhere our defence arrangements must be based on consent and co-operation with the peoples concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.495.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I think he called it Dominion status—and the right, I take it, to opt out of the Commonwealth. Certainly this is a first step on the road to self-government and it depends on how the new scheme is operated by the parties in Cyprus as to how fast we can go along on that road. At the same time, my statement has made it quite clear that there can be no question of any change of sovereignty in Cyprus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": " to operate such a constitution would not be forthcoming, so in fact the constitution would not work. We are therefore proposing a constitution which we hope will work. In regard to the second part of the question, it has always been understood and agreed that there are certain territories in the Commonwealth which, owing to their particular circumstances, can never expect to be fully independent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.508.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.530.3", "colnum": "530", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "us and for their future well-being. The reason why I am glad that my right hon. Friend has made his statement is that by making it crystal clear that the question of sovereignty cannot arise at present and removing the issue from the field of politics he is making it clear that there will be a possibility for the people to work gradually towards self-government and of stating their real interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Malta.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "d would go forward with the co-operation of the people of Cyprus. I was questioned about sovereignty and I said that this did not involve any question of change of sovereignty and that that was something which we did not contemplate. I said that there were certain territories in which the question of the exact degree of independence which a Colony could achieve would depend upon its circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.532.2", "colnum": "532", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "on as it is in Cyprus at the moment. We have these two extreme parties on either side, each competing on a sentimental basis for the support of the Cypriots but with neither having any responsibility for the government of the country. Surely the Government's proposals are the right thing to do when there are two parties of this kind. Surely we do not imagine that the whole country supports Enosis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.532.4", "colnum": "532", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macpherson", "preceding_text": "I cannot quote a definite instance just now, but surely it is common knowledge. This has been reported again and again. It is well known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.532.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.542.1", "colnum": "542", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "nearer the point and decide for themselves. That is exactly the chance which is to be denied them under the present proposal. The present proposal is that, since under a constitution which did not appeal to anyone in Cyprus a majority of the members of the legislative council were elected, in future they shall be nominated. If someone is not content with half a loaf, he is given the crust instead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": "Only in the historical sense. I want to refer to it in the present sense. Are hon. Members opposite aware of the position which Turkey occupies in the defence plans of N.A.T.O.? Are they aware that 18 per cent, of the population of Cyprus is Turkish-speaking? Is no account to be taken of these facts? They have not been mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.550.1", "colnum": "550", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Tory Party?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyttelton", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Coventry, East and hand Cyprus over to Greece. If it is the latter, the sooner it is stated the better, and the easier it will be for the Government to knock down the case. I can hardly imagine that that is the official Labour Party attitude, but it is a little difficult to know because of the sharp difference there is between Members opposite below the Gangway and those above it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is dodging the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "I see the point of the hon. Member's question perfectly well. I think that the less I say about Burma the better. I have already listed Burma in a long chain of withdrawals, of which I certainly do not approve, looking back on it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "CYPRUS (CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aneurin Bevan", "preceding_text": ". He has not moved at all. He has not awakened to the fact that we on this side have tried to point out over and over again that the forces of nationalism in the world today form some of the strongest emotional urges with which every nation has to deal, and that, as my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman) said in what, I consider, was a most remarkable. Coherent, cogent speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "SPORTS FACILITIES (GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "ue about faults of that sort. Also, to a lesser extent—it is only because the population is less—the establishments for further education—these and the schools are first responsibilities; and in these what can be done by central direction will be done to see that games are properly organised, etc. Incidentally I may say about the Battle of Waterloo, when \"it was won on the playing fields of Eton\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-28", "file": "debates1954-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "b992a981bd543277", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.633.0", "colnum": "633", "heading": "LEVEL CROSSINGS, LINCOLN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. de Freitas", "preceding_text": "I welcome discussion of it. I have seen some correspondence in the farming papers about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-28a.633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.668.2", "colnum": "668", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the parents in this district are not complaining, and that it would be an advantage if my hon. Friend the Member for Newport (Mr. Peter Freeman) would leave the teaching profession alone for a while?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.668.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.695.2", "colnum": "695", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Absolutely right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I can quite understand, Sir, that there are many hon. Members—perhaps the majority of those on the other side—who do not wish to hear what I have to offer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.695.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Including the Prime Minister.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "y on the last day before the Recess? There has been no shortage of time about this. There is nothing new in the Agreement. The Heads of Agreement which were signed the other day were available to the Government two years ago. They have known that they had a group of their supporters who are not happy about this. There was a time when Members of the Government were not so happy about it themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Before that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "gnty. We have not had any assurance whatsoever. All we have had from the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the House, is a reference to the Standing Order of the House. We know all about the Standing Order, but what we want is an assurance from the Government that they will pledge themselves to advise Mr. Speaker to recall the House in the event of their being on the point of taking any decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "n alleged point of order. In the course of that statement, possibly due to a misunderstanding, because I believe the hon. Member was not in the House when I made my speech, he said that I had accused South Korea of having committed an act of aggression. I did no such thing. I have always supported the United Nations Security Council in taking action against the aggression committed by North Korea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "l minutes on expounding it. Then he said that no one wanted that. Of course, no one does want that. With great humility, I challenge his second argument. I do not believe that it is impossible for us to hold, with something like a brigade or two brigades' strength and to keep supplied on the Canal, a small base. All over the world we have been doing that for hundreds of years. It is nothing fresh.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not after this speech.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain Waterhouse", "preceding_text": "h, but that is true. All over the world we have been holding positions in the face of adversity and we are not unable to do it now if we really felt that we had to do so. It is said that we cannot do it because the population is hostile. Is there a very friendly population in Cyprus? Are there any indications that our people are going to be welcomed in Cyprus any more than they have been in Egypt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.743.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Is this a repeat performance?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "of entering upon new relations with the Arabs and the Jews that it will not be a scuttle. It will not be a military disaster if only we take that new attitude. That is what disturbed us about Cyprus. What happened? On the same afternoon a concession to common sense was made by the Foreign Secretary and half an hour later a concession to emotion was made by his colleague in his statement on Cyprus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that none of us had the privilege of speaking yesterday afternoon after the Colonial Secretary. He made a series of assertions which seriously invalidated the good intentions of the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement, for if the Agreement means the end of the Imperial relationship in the Middle East, then we cannot possibly assert British sovereignty in Cyprus on the same day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "oday because Israel achieved her independence by force. We have only got it with Egypt because Egypt is getting her independence. Unless we give the people of Cyprus their will, they will not be with us. This is the first thing that we want to emphasise to the Government today from this side of the House. Whether or not the Agreement leads to good will depends upon how the Government interpret it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.768.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ere, which has given an excuse to every Egyptian leader for 25 years to blame the British, to find a scapegoat in Israel now with the result that there may be a possibility of a \"second round.\" It is our responsibility as a country to ascertain whether the military security arrangements which have been made will reduce the risk of there being a \"second round.\" I ask myself whether we are doing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.768.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.778.4", "colnum": "778", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about India?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "a should become, as it may well become, an area of insurrection. There are wider implications even than these. To me it is rather shocking—I use the word seriously and frankly—that Ministers have not been able to say that they could claim the full agreement of the Commonwealth in this matter. I gather that there is pretty serious doubt about the decision in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.778.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speciosity\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "munist world, who will not be slow to take it up, and I do not believe that it is giving to the people of this country the service which they should be given. On other grounds, I fully accept the view of my right hon. and hon. Friends that the hydrogen bomb argument has been dragged in at the last minute in order to give speciosity, plausibility, to this new desire to clear out of the Middle East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.808.1", "colnum": "808", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "e which Her Majesty's advisers now submit to this House. I am attempting to delay a little because I would like the Leader of the Opposition to be present. Perhaps feeling a little in holiday mood, he was extremely severe in his strictures on the Government. He was very severe in regard to our attitude in Opposition for those six years. According to him, our behaviour was in all respects unworthy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-07-29", "file": "debates1954-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "2f7eefc686bc57bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.809.1", "colnum": "809", "heading": "SUEZ CANAL ZONE BASE (ANGLO-EGYPTIAN AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "o, not once but almost every day. What would be the position if we did not reach an agreement? I do beg my right hon. and hon. Friends once again to face this, and I will face it as fairly as I can. First, no redeployment of any kind would be possible. The 80,000 troops would remain in Egypt and probably there would be a clamour for their reinforcement if conditions grew worse in the great cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-07-29a.809.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-19", "file": "debates1954-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b6888ad3b406a7d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1015.5", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the old-age pensioners?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman does not quite understand what we mean by levelling up. Perhaps I ought to add that in June this year, for the first time since the war, the index of wages drew level with the index of prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1015.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-19", "file": "debates1954-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b6888ad3b406a7d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1027.3", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD RUSSELL OF LIVERPOOL (RESIGNATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that some British subjects, while not denouncing or ever having denounced the German people, feel that efforts by the Lord Chancellor to prevent the publication of a book which is historical fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1027.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-19", "file": "debates1954-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b6888ad3b406a7d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1033.1", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — COLONIAL TERRITORIES (SELF-DETERMINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Driberg", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware how shocked and disappointed people were in Cyprus, for instance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1033.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-19", "file": "debates1954-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b6888ad3b406a7d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1043.2", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPEAN DEFENCE (LONDON CONFERENCE AGREEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eden", "preceding_text": "Of course, as far as German sovereignty is concerned, as the right hon. Gentleman himself will be aware, the first step towards German sovereignty was taken as long ago as 1950, and the agreements were all signed in 1952.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1043.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-19", "file": "debates1954-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b6888ad3b406a7d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1087.1", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.— (ASSOCIATED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": " associated companies. In fact, of course, it does the very reverse. The hon. and learned Member made great play of what fraudulent tenancy arrangements between associated companies might possibly lead to. I am happy to say that that kind of thing is not very common in Scotland. The object of the new Clause is to treat, for the purposes of this Bill, all these legal personae —associated companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-19", "file": "debates1954-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b6888ad3b406a7d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1088.2", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause.— (ASSOCIATED COMPANIES.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I think the Lord Advocate said in reply to my hon and learned Friend the Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hector Hughes) that he was quite wrong in thinking that this new Clause conferred a benefit upon the associated companies. I think he made it quite clear that in his view this would not lead to any additional payments from the Exchequer to associated companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1088.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-19", "file": "debates1954-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b6888ad3b406a7d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1141.0", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 29.—(REVIEW OF PLANNING DECISIONS WHERE COMPENSATION CLAIMED.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Manuel", "preceding_text": "d, after all we have heard in the past, especially from Ministers, about the need to preserve local authority powers, that we should be discussing this proposal. One of the Joint Under-Secretaries of State blazed a trail up and down the county of Fife preaching that gospel, in which I ardently believe. It seems terrible that once an hon. Member assumes office he should leave his conscience behind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-19", "file": "debates1954-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "b6888ad3b406a7d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 34.—(RECOVERY OF COMPENSATION ON SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoy", "preceding_text": " did not say that this provision goes rather further, and that where the Secretary of State waives payment for that purpose he retains the right to reimpose a development charge if the land is used for something other than a sports ground. It would be interesting to know exactly what is meant, because it is not usual for sports grounds to be turned into housing sites; I have never known it happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-19a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-10-20", "file": "debates1954-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "f548a6a243966160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-20a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AFRICAN TERRITORIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that in the social survey published by the United Nations per capita figures are given for the racial groups in a number of the countries mentioned in the Question? Will he bring that information up to date?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-20a.1184.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-10-20", "file": "debates1954-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "f548a6a243966160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-20a.1201.5", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HONG KONG", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The Consular Convention between Her Majesty's Government and the United States leaves it to each Government to decide how many officers they require. As to hordes of people, I personally thank God that there are hordes of Americans in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-20a.1201.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-10-20", "file": "debates1954-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "f548a6a243966160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-20a.1243.2", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 72.—(INTERPRETATION.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "hat some of the words are in Latin. I do not cavil at that. Any educated person will understand words and phrases in Latin, but where such words are found in a Clause that purports to be an interpretation Clause designed to assist persons who are concerned with the administration of the Bill and its affect on their land and money, the Clause is far from being an interpretation Clause. Sir Charles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-20a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-20", "file": "debates1954-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "f548a6a243966160", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-20a.1311.6", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "OVERSEAS RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "s criticised for going there for only a fortnight and then making any observations at all, the Parliamentary Delegation has been congratulated on its celerity in arriving at conclusions after a similarly short stay. I should like the right hon. Gentleman to tell us one or two things about his policy generally. I am sure that we are all glad that he has been on the spot—which is where he should be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-20a.1311.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-21", "file": "debates1954-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "68f1dab779524f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-21a.1376.0", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport", "preceding_text": "In spite of all these prosecutions, what is the use in having a law that cannot really be enforced? Is my right hon. and gallant Friend aware that chief constables and the police feel very strongly that if they were allowed to take the ridiculous police signs off the tops of their cars, and could go about in plain clothes, they could not only enforce the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-21a.1376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-21", "file": "debates1954-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "68f1dab779524f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-21a.1399.1", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "HOUSING (REVIEW OF CONTRIBUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "s in difficulty in wanting to criticise the basis or formula for taking this decision, as it is the one which was used by the previous Government. The right hon. Member for Bishop Auckland, reinforced by his hon. and learned Friend, has gone into the future. I rather admire them for looking ahead; it is not one of their usual traits. They have said, \"We admit that the decrease today is justified\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-21a.1399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-21", "file": "debates1954-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "68f1dab779524f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-21a.1404.1", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "HOUSING (REVIEW OF CONTRIBUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Pannell", "preceding_text": "ernment. What is really happening? The hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. H. Nicholls) presses—I always give him credit for it—at the Tory Party conference for the building of 300,000 houses a year. The Minister of Housing and Local Government achieves the conference target and as a result he moves on to the Ministry of Defence. In achieving the conference target he sinks the Minister of Education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-21a.1404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-21", "file": "debates1954-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "68f1dab779524f26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-21a.1413.1", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "HOUSING (REVIEW OF CONTRIBUTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Yes, of course, the cost per foot super. The cost of doing a given amount of building work has risen by 4 per cent.; but, obviously, if upon the average there is less building work in the houses being built, the actual cost of the houses being built will have fallen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-21a.1413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-25", "file": "debates1954-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "8c949d27fac1ce00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-25a.1579.6", "colnum": "1579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The same old story\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Lady will not get too cross with me about this. The fact is, as I have stated, that persons on Assistance today are more comfortable than they were at any time between 1946 and 1952—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-25a.1579.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-25", "file": "debates1954-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "8c949d27fac1ce00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-25a.1614.2", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "which would mar or halt the buoyant progress that British industry is making at the present time. In May, we decided that we would maintain coal exports at the higher level to which they had risen, and which was almost double that of last year, and at the same time we decided to import coal, arranging the imports well in advance. We decided to import two million tons of coal. Then came the summer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-25a.1614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-25", "file": "debates1954-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "8c949d27fac1ce00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-25a.1642.1", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to turn this into a party political dogfight, but I might respond very adequately by saying that the mileage of railways electrified in this country since 1951 is substantially higher than the electrification that took place between 1945 and 1951. What I am much more concerned with —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-25a.1642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-25", "file": "debates1954-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "8c949d27fac1ce00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-25a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "NATIONAL COAL BOARD (ANNUAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "on of coal upon the most efficient producing units but maintain all units equally in production, which is the implication of that criticism. The third criticism is that such a policy would not pay regard to the social consequences in individual coal producing areas. Again that is, naked and unashamed, a plea for the maintenance of a price system which will retain in production the uneconomic pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-25a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-26", "file": "debates1954-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a3dadbf36a771038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-26a.1765.0", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "EAST AFRICA (SECRETARY OF STATE'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": " infiltration even into trade union circles, that of the 45, 27 have, after screening, been detained on Governor's orders, while 15 have been released, and the remaining three are being speedily investigated. Finally, the right hon. Gentleman asked me about an African political party. It has been our unhappy experience in Kenya that a nation-wide organisation is liable to get into the wrong hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-26a.1765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-26", "file": "debates1954-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "a3dadbf36a771038", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-26a.1794.0", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Clause 1. — 4OFF ENCE S IN CONNECTION WITH PREPARATION AND SALE OF INJURIOUS FOODS AND ADULTERATED DRUGS.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Bishop", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. P. Bishop", "preceding_text": "I am glad that my right hon. Friend has not accepted the Amendment. I am sure that we all agree with what has just been said, that everyone concerned with the advertising of goods for sale should do his reasonable utmost to make sure that the advertisement is truthful. However, there is surely a limit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-26a.1794.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-10-27", "file": "debates1954-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ce3c0129fd9c5b55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-27a.2040.0", "colnum": "2040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 7.—(AMENDMENT OF S. 14 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgs", "preceding_text": "r, except by accident, to discover that manufacturing was going on in a back-room. But where the public are invited to enter and to eat or buy, I would prefer to see cleanliness enforced in the way in which we are accustomed to see it enforced—by the courts. Let us look at what registration would involve if the party opposite have their way. It would mean that every hotel and every boarding house—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-27a.2039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-27", "file": "debates1954-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ce3c0129fd9c5b55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-27a.2048.1", "colnum": "2048", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 7.—(AMENDMENT OF S. 14 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "required to register with the appropriate local authority. Turning to Appendix II (Part B), let us read it as a whole. It is quite clear that certain members of the Working Party said that they recommended registration, and they explained the way in which they accepted it. They believed that there should be registration as of right. The point from which the Parliamentary Secretary cannot run away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-27a.2048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-27", "file": "debates1954-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ce3c0129fd9c5b55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-27a.2049.0", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 7.—(AMENDMENT OF S. 14 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I made plain to the Committee that I was dealing precisely with the point the hon. Gentleman raised, that the catering trade representatives themselves—and he made great play with this —sought or acquiesced in registration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-27a.2049.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-10-27", "file": "debates1954-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ce3c0129fd9c5b55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-27a.2049.1", "colnum": "2049", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 7.—(AMENDMENT OF S. 14 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "rove (Mr. Higgs) pointed out, with the relative merits of these two methods. He did not deal with the relative effectiveness of these two methods. An intervention by the hon. Member for Northfield (Mr. Chapman) made plain to me why. If we examine the two methods in the light of his admission that he regards the method of registration as not applicable to boarding houses, small hotels and the like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-27a.2049.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-27", "file": "debates1954-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "ce3c0129fd9c5b55", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-27a.2051.2", "colnum": "2051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 7.—(AMENDMENT OF S. 14 OF PRINCIPAL ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"British Railways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " the trade to serve on them. These committees recommended that catering establishments should be registered. In the course of the last two days we have debated food hygiene in its broadest aspects. If we ask any member of the public where the lowest standard of food hygiene is observed, he will tell us that it is in the small cafés, and I do not think any hon. Member will dissent from that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-27a.2051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2114.2", "colnum": "2114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorneycroft", "preceding_text": "If hon. Gentlemen have any evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2147.1", "colnum": "2147", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that that phrase of courtesy has been used on this occasion also in regard to this statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2153.3", "colnum": "2153", "heading": "CYPRUS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Must?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "Of course I want voluntary co-operation. I posed the ideal at which we are aiming, and, in order to achieve it, there must be co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2159.5", "colnum": "2159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I do not think this ought to be a matter of controversy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2163.2", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd George", "preceding_text": "I must get on with my speech. I suggest that I have given all the necessary information in relation to this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2209.2", "colnum": "2209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Try the Home Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "I am asking about these deep ruminations which we are having about the next war. We were told that these mobile columns were brand new, created specially for this new occasion. Therefore, I repeat the question, and perhaps the Joint Under-Secretary will answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2214.1", "colnum": "2214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He does not know.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman shakes his head, why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2243.1", "colnum": "2243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "I cannot be classified among the experienced Parliamentarians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2245.5", "colnum": "2245", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": "his. I do not understand why it has been abandoned. Have we really learnt everything there is to learn from having an experimental mobile column? The Joint Under-Secretary has several questions to answer. My right hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Bellenger) referred to the chain of command. The Under-Secretary of State for Air intervened, but I do not think we were any clearer at the end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2245.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2253.1", "colnum": "2253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Sir Hugh Lucas-Tooth)", "preceding_text": "n expressed this afternoon. On the other hand, there are those Who contend that we ought to maintain, in time of peace, continuously and for an indefinite period, a vast physical and financial effort of a purely passive nature. Both those extremes have been advocated simultaneously by the hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman); indeed, he has advocated them in the course of a single speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2254.1", "colnum": "2254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "ent on defence policy. That was recognised by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for South Shields, very fairly, I thought, in his speech. I think it is fair to draw a comparison with the earlier history of this matter, because the hon. Member for Lincoln rather suggested that the Government had been dragging their feet whereas the previous Government had not. I do not make a party point of this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2259.0", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"After war starts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree that the purpose of this Bill is to meet exactly that point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-10-28", "file": "debates1954-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "03540ea5361601db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2259.4", "colnum": "2259", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "—but it is a considerable advance on what has been proposed so far by anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-10-28a.2259.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-01", "file": "debates1954-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "888c2ef3a0b4fd6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.24.5", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am bound to say that I could not myself understand what the implication was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.24.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-01", "file": "debates1954-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "888c2ef3a0b4fd6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.31.5", "colnum": "31", "heading": "PERSIAN OIL AGREEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Suez\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "What it shows is that in October, 1951, when the late Govern- ment left office, we were out of Abadan; in November, 1954—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.31.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-01", "file": "debates1954-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "888c2ef3a0b4fd6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.34.6", "colnum": "34", "heading": "DOCK STRIKES (RESUMPTION OF WORK)", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why was it not settled?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Monckton", "preceding_text": "I did not want in any way to be misleading when I said the point was a narrow one. I did not mean that it did not affect a great number of men, but the issue was a narrow one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.34.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-01", "file": "debates1954-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "888c2ef3a0b4fd6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.50.3", "colnum": "50", "heading": "RAILWAYS REORGANISATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Part-time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "uppose we must accept that from the Parliamentary Secretary. It has certainly altered the Scheme for the worse so far as I am concerned. The Parliamentary Secretary boasts, I think not so much for the benefit of the public as for the benefit of his own backbenchers, that the area boards are to spend £446 million a year. How often are these area boards to meet? What sort of meetings are they to be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.50.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-01", "file": "debates1954-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "888c2ef3a0b4fd6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.81.3", "colnum": "81", "heading": "RAILWAYS REORGANISATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Oh.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steele", "preceding_text": " doubt that the staff of his Department laboured long to try to get a scheme; for myself, I do not believe that the right hon. Gentleman laboured a great deal. The Minister was rather guarded in his phrases, but not the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. He said: First of all, let the Committee recognise the very remarkable changes for the better that this Bill brings about for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.81.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-01", "file": "debates1954-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "888c2ef3a0b4fd6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "RAILWAYS REORGANISATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quislings?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "n spite of this apprehension, the area boards are to be proceeded with. we agree with this sentence: The Commission are, therefore, strongly and unanimously of the opinion that they alone should appoint the persons who would constitute the area authorities. Indeed, we feel especially strongly about that, because we would not want the right hon. Gentleman to have the job of appointing 36 Quislings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-01", "file": "debates1954-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "888c2ef3a0b4fd6b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.147.3", "colnum": "147", "heading": "RAILWAYS REORGANISATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I am sorry; I cannot give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-01a.147.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-02", "file": "debates1954-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ebe526a4e34a95b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.220.5", "colnum": "220", "heading": "MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nutting", "preceding_text": "I have answered the right hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.220.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-02", "file": "debates1954-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ebe526a4e34a95b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "on which he has given of the various matters with which he has dealt. Perhaps the exposition is not complete in all detail, and no doubt questions will be asked during the debate which I am sure the Secretary of State will be happy to answer in complete detail. It will, I think, be the wish of the House generally that I should extend our congratulations to the Minister of State upon his promotion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-02", "file": "debates1954-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ebe526a4e34a95b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get it on the record.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": " for Ipswich (Mr. Stokes)—and I am not sure that he would agree with everything I have said about his friend Dr. Mossadeq, with whom he had careful and cordial exchanges, and who really did his best—that is how it was. There is no doubt whatever that that was the attitude of the Opposition, and, if necessary, examples could be quoted, but I do not want to bother the House with a lot of quotations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-02", "file": "debates1954-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ebe526a4e34a95b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "g, and I do not want to depreciate it too much, but, after all, this has not been a quick operation. The Government have been in office for about three years, and, therefore, they have been patient. It has been slow motion, moving with great care and circumspection as and when they had any opportunity of moving at all. Now, Dr. Mossadeq has gone somewhere else, but the Government did not move him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-02", "file": "debates1954-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ebe526a4e34a95b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "during another part of the time—might have been that the Government had grave apprehensions that they could have been defeated on this issue of Egypt week after week. It was a real possibility. If I recall these unhappy and worrying days, surely that is a legitimate thing to do; but I was not seeking to attack my hon. Friend. He knows that attacks by one Labour Member upon another are not allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-02", "file": "debates1954-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ebe526a4e34a95b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Professor Sir Douglas Savory", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Professor Sir Douglas Savory", "preceding_text": "et I had to write four letters to \"The Times\" to contest the absurdity of the statement that the Treaty Ports could not be held because the population was hostile. I now come to my third point, and I speak here with very great diffidence, because I wish to quote from my leader, the Prime Minister, a few sentences which very deeply moved me when I heard them in 1946. I am very glad that he is here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-02", "file": "debates1954-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "ebe526a4e34a95b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And Libya.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalton", "preceding_text": "defence of collective security. It has been said that the Israelis are apprehensive because they feel that the assurance given to them by the three Western Powers in the event of their being attacked by the Arab States is much less firm, much less quickly operative and much less automatic than were the undertakings given by us—without the United States and France being involved—to Iraq and Jordan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-02a.317.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-03", "file": "debates1954-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d593d88d165a4e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.366.7", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDEPENDENT TELEVISION AUTHORITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend take note of the great desire of the Opposition for political interference with so-called independent boards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.366.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-03", "file": "debates1954-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d593d88d165a4e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.370.2", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDEPENDENT TELEVISION AUTHORITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. H. Morrison", "preceding_text": "Of course we are making a charge of political partiality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.370.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-03", "file": "debates1954-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d593d88d165a4e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.370.6", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDEPENDENT TELEVISION AUTHORITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ness Edwards", "preceding_text": "To come back to the Question on the Order Paper, is not the hon. Gentleman aware that a financial tie-up has already occurred between two programme contractors? Is not that in contradiction of the undertaking given by the hon. Gentleman at that Dispatch Box, and is he going to do nothing about it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.370.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-03", "file": "debates1954-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d593d88d165a4e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.483.4", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "have these powers, although they are unlimited, and not fettered in any way, we never exercise the right to deport a man unless there is such overwhelmingly good reason for it that no one would think that we could do anything else. I now want to quote the Joint Under-Secretary of State on the point. I am quoting from Volume 521 of HANSARD, at column 565, and I am going to read two paragraphs only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.483.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-03", "file": "debates1954-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d593d88d165a4e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.506.4", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Owen Thomas", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.506.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-03", "file": "debates1954-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d593d88d165a4e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.512.0", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is not capable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman is not following the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.512.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-03", "file": "debates1954-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d593d88d165a4e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Dentists Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend reminds me that, of course, the Teachers' Superannuation Bill has not got very far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-03", "file": "debates1954-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d593d88d165a4e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.512.2", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "y to the Parliamentary Secretary that there is a very strong case for bringing in this Bill at the earliest possible moment if he means the public to take seriously the suggestion that the Government are in earnest about preventing road accidents. The Parliamentary Secretary knows, as I know, that in this legislation there are many provisions dealing with drunkenness and a great many other things.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.512.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-03", "file": "debates1954-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d593d88d165a4e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.535.1", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": ", there have often been cases of this kind during the past year. I hope that no one replying will venture the opinion that, because the Committee did not make any specific recommendation on this, they think that the Act should be dropped, say, after this continuing year. We on this side would be glad to hear, therefore, what the Government have to say about the future outlook for this Tenancy Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.535.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-03", "file": "debates1954-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "1d593d88d165a4e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.540.3", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I do not know what any hon. Member is going to speak about when I call him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-03a.540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-04", "file": "debates1954-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "06e9ec887dbe74f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.578.4", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Would the Minister state whether this concession still applies? Is he further aware that great hardship is being caused in Cardiff, where people who have simply been left the home in which they are living are being required to pay Estate Duty, which means selling the home in order to pay the Estate Duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.578.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-04", "file": "debates1954-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "06e9ec887dbe74f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.596.7", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTER OF EDUCATION (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that considerable uneasiness was caused in the teaching profession by this incursion by the new Minister into the realm of party politics where teachers are concerned? Is he further aware that there is indignation in the Principality at the anti-Welsh sentiments which the Minister revealed in his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.596.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-04", "file": "debates1954-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "06e9ec887dbe74f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "passed the Home Secretary or the Secretary of State for Scotland would reply, \"Oh, yes, but what do you want a Navy for if you cannot protect the civilian population against atom bombers?\" The Admiralty would reply, \"We go back to Trafalgar. We are an ancient institution and there would be an impossible precedent if we did not get the money we asked for.\" If there were a civilian in the Admiralty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-04", "file": "debates1954-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "06e9ec887dbe74f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.633.3", "colnum": "633", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "be achieved would be not what they want: the result of the Amendment—if it were held to be in order and if it were incorporated in the Bill—would be to double the national service of people called up under this Bill. Instead of two years under the National Service Acts they could—I do not say they would—be called upon to do two years' service under this Measure and still do their military service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-04", "file": "debates1954-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "06e9ec887dbe74f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.659.4", "colnum": "659", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "respect of the pay of\"— of the men whom he gets for training. I notice that the Air Force has fled. The reason why will appear. This really means that this money for the pay of these men, who are still members of the Air Force, will have to be borne in the end on the Home Secretary's Vote. It is not as if these men were being transferred to Civil Defence and ceasing to be members of the Air Force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.659.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-04", "file": "debates1954-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "06e9ec887dbe74f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is very tempting, but he is tempting me to tell a lie.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-04", "file": "debates1954-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "06e9ec887dbe74f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "ROADS (TRAFFIC CONGESTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Don-caster?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": "Chamber as soon as he began to speak, but I had been sitting here all day during the debate on the Civil Defence (Armed Forces) Bill. Like the hon. Member for Sunderland, South (Mr. P. Williams) I am willing to offer my constituency as a \"guinea pig.\" I am willing to say that there is greater congestion in the streets of the city of Lincoln than in any other city of comparable size in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-04", "file": "debates1954-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "06e9ec887dbe74f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "ROADS (TRAFFIC CONGESTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Roman regimentation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas", "preceding_text": "uld get down to and across the Witham to the southern part of what is now the city more quickly 2,000 years ago than a man today, by bus or any other form of vehicle, could possibly do the journey. In 2,000 years we have advanced absolutely nil in this regard. If one tried to do the journey now one would stand for most of the time gazing over the gates of the level crossing at the railway waggons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-04a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-05", "file": "debates1954-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "75daa27844a8e178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-05a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL GALLERY AND TATE GALLERY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A loan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Hinchingbrooke", "preceding_text": "sed in another place and we are due to take the Third Reading today. If these Amendments are negatived, this will be the last chance that this Parliament will have of doing anything about this issue for years to come because, as far as I know, there is no other legislation under which this transfer can be made and these pictures will be sealed in the Tate Gallery after four o'clock this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-05a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-05", "file": "debates1954-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "75daa27844a8e178", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-05a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL GALLERY AND TATE GALLERY BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "flourishes in Britain, we ought to put up only pictures by modern artists to show that art is not dead here. We have the purpose abroad of showing that we are a dynamic country, and that is not demonstrated only by commerce and industry. It is remarkable that in the Embassy in Washington there is a very large picture of George III. That does not seem appropriate either politically or artistically.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-05a.798.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-08", "file": "debates1954-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "44971c7beaeb4feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.852.0", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The Minister does not know.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "On fuel policy generally, may I ask my right hon. Friend whether all these operations involve carrying coals to Newcastle or not? May I have an answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.851.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-08", "file": "debates1954-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "44971c7beaeb4feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.889.3", "colnum": "889", "heading": "HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "marily by the drivers. It seems to me to be putting a misleading construction on the Cede to arrange it in this way. It might be said that the order of presentation is unimportant, but I suggest that it is vital to arrange the document so that the important parts appear first. We should remember that five-sixths of accidents which occur on the roads would occur if there were no pedestrians at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.889.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-08", "file": "debates1954-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "44971c7beaeb4feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "HIGHWAY CODE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shocking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member's old mother had just been run down, his approach to this matter might be rather different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-08", "file": "debates1954-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "44971c7beaeb4feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.951.2", "colnum": "951", "heading": "SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I have not grossly misrepresented the right hon. Gentleman. The impression he has left, and if he reads the American Press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.951.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-08", "file": "debates1954-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "44971c7beaeb4feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "a invited and consulted? Dear old Canada is furthest away of all and does not want to be consulted and drawn into this problem. She does not want to be drawn into the problem of the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation. Where, then, is the Conservative Party going, and where are we going on this side of the House? People talk of realism. I am surrounded at the present moment by bewildered realists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-08", "file": "debates1954-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "44971c7beaeb4feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. and gallant Gentleman says, \"Hear, hear\" Are the Colonies and the Dominions to have conscription? Is Australia to introduce conscription because it is in the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-08", "file": "debates1954-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "44971c7beaeb4feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Both the right hon. Gentleman and the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Worthing say that that is the difference between the two words, but that reveals their subconscious mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-08", "file": "debates1954-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "44971c7beaeb4feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Both the right hon. Gentleman and the hon. and gallant Gentleman the Member for Worthing say that that is the difference between the two words, but that reveals their subconscious mind. [ Interruption .] I know that the hon. and gallant Gentleman does not like what I am saying, but I am entitled to make my point. We are living in an age where words are using men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-08", "file": "debates1954-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "44971c7beaeb4feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": " fact, he clearly implied that the only kind of aggression that he had in mind and as being affected by the treaty would be Communist aggression. He clearly had not in mind, for example, the possibility of aggression by some other non-Communist State in the treaty area. He clearly did not have in mind that the treaty would come into action if there were aggression by Siam against Laos or Cambodia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-08", "file": "debates1954-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "44971c7beaeb4feb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "SOUTH-EAST ASIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Warbey", "preceding_text": "his treaty does something, at least, to strip the pretence away, because it does say that we are not really concerned about aggression in general but are only concerned about Communist aggression and nothing else. I should be worried about this if I thought there were any military teeth in the treaty, but I understand that there are not and that we need not worry very much about the treaty at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-08a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-09", "file": "debates1954-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "819f3c6c2dc4a378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Prime Minister will not try to make jokes about this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-09", "file": "debates1954-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "819f3c6c2dc4a378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1041.5", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman is Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman might, with all his eloquence and learning, go to both the Americans and the Russians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1041.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-09", "file": "debates1954-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "819f3c6c2dc4a378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1042.2", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "CONSUMERS' WELFARE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is certainly one of the duties of the Government to promote the welfare of consumers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-09", "file": "debates1954-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "819f3c6c2dc4a378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1044.2", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "ant change in the attitude to nationalisation in various quarters. Of course, I cannot speak on behalf of the Opposition but, even there, I sense a change. It is natural. After all, nationalisation was to them once a dream and now it is a fact in certain industries. Would I be going too far if I said there was not quite the same general enthusiasm for nationalisation as there has been in the past?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1044.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-09", "file": "debates1954-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "819f3c6c2dc4a378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1044.2", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Fuel and Power (Mr. Geoffrey Lloyd)", "preceding_text": "o the middle sections of opinion, putting it moderately I think it would be true to say that there is today a greater sense of the dangers of monopoly, and a good deal less confidence that those dangers can be avoided simply because the monopoly is publicly owned. Now I come to the attitude of the Conservative Party. This has been summed up by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, when he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1044.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-09", "file": "debates1954-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "819f3c6c2dc4a378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1069.2", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambert", "preceding_text": "No, but it would have been possible to do it between 1945 and 1952 if the party opposite had not spent capital on all sorts of wild-cat schemes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1069.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-09", "file": "debates1954-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "819f3c6c2dc4a378", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1091.5", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "GAS AND ELECTRICITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "s. The Report shows that the Ministry of Fuel and Power and the Authority have certainly not lost sight of the need to do all that they can on these lines. They start by saying: Ten schemes for district heating and industrial steam supply were under investigation during the year, … and go on to outline what they are. They are by no means back-pedalling on this business, so far as I can see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-09a.1091.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-10", "file": "debates1954-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "672b3f38951f89d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1183.3", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": ", had studied the Question before that intervention, he would have seen that I was asked by his hon. Friend when it is proposed to introduce legislation of that nature. My answer was that the only proposals came from the right hon. Gentleman's own party and that for that reason the prospect appeared to be remote. That seems to me to be an answer which has the merit of being both relevant and true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1183.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-10", "file": "debates1954-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "672b3f38951f89d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1183.6", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "Will not the Minister look again at this matter? He must know that business and commercial interests all over the country are deploring the continuation of these sales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1183.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-10", "file": "debates1954-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "672b3f38951f89d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1183.7", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I am as concerned as the hon. Member that there should be as efficient a service as possible, but he must accept it from me that a great volume of opinion in the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1183.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-10", "file": "debates1954-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "672b3f38951f89d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1189.2", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROADS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Member has misunderstood. The reduction in the number of crossings took place three years ago. My Department has not been responsible for reductions recently. From correspondence, I gather the hon. Member has in mind that certain crossings which are police controlled have had their stripes removed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1189.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-10", "file": "debates1954-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "672b3f38951f89d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1209.1", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "or four months' time we shall have the Defence White Paper and if we have not then been told what the further steps are to be, we shall expect to find the answers in the White Paper together with the results of the Government's investigations into Civil Defence, which have been going on during the last few months. I believe that every member of the Labour Party wants to see adequate Civil Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-10", "file": "debates1954-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "672b3f38951f89d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL DEFENCE (ARMED FORCES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Emrys Hughes)?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members have given general support to this Bill with one exception, that being the hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-10", "file": "debates1954-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "672b3f38951f89d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1257.0", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Clause 2.—(EXTENSION OF POWER TO REQUIRE OR ASSIST IN PREVENTIVE MEASURES.)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Acland", "preceding_text": "ration. Does he intend to apply the provisions of the Bill to the whole of Cornwall? That would be a convenient area to take, because, by stretching a barbed wire fence from the upper waters of the Tamar to the coast in the neighbourhood of Bude, it would be possible to cut off Cornwall from England. If we got rid of all the Cornish rabbits, the English rabbits would not be able to enter Cornwall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-10a.1257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-11", "file": "debates1954-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d418c022e89f5db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1391.4", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Each?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Fraser", "preceding_text": "It grieves me very much to move against these beautiful creatures, but will my right hon. and gallant Friend nevertheless believe that there are half a million of them in Morecambe Bay, eating 10 cockles a day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-11", "file": "debates1954-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d418c022e89f5db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1433.2", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Less work.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "preceding_text": "There will be no obligation, but the local authority will keep a list of establishments just as it does at present. In order to reinforce their arguments, the supporters of the proposed new Clause have reminded the Committee that local authorities want registration. Of course they do, and of course medical officers want registration. The fact that it means more work in the office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-11", "file": "debates1954-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d418c022e89f5db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1433.2", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "preceding_text": "nts just as it does at present. In order to reinforce their arguments, the supporters of the proposed new Clause have reminded the Committee that local authorities want registration. Of course they do, and of course medical officers want registration. The fact that it means more work in the office—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Less work.\"]—to keep an annual register up to date and more people employed to do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1433.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-11", "file": "debates1954-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d418c022e89f5db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1433.4", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the courts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "preceding_text": "reat of withdrawal of registration by the local authority and of being put out of business. We can content ourselves with the equally serviceable but much less frightening weapon of proceedings under the 1938 Act, because there is ample provision in the Bill to enable the sanitary inspector to use his influence to educate the owner of the catering establishment to bring it up to a proper standard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1433.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-11", "file": "debates1954-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d418c022e89f5db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Linstead", "preceding_text": "rity, but through day-by-day education by the sanitary inspectors of the proprietors of catering establishments. It is because I am satisfied that there is enough sanction at the disposal of medical officers of health and sanitary inspectors without the necessity of registration that I say that my hon. Friend is right in removing registration, which, like nationalisation, is after all only a word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-11", "file": "debates1954-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d418c022e89f5db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "dy which was bitterly opposed at the outset to the general conception of things, a body which approved regulations on the clear understanding that they could never be the subject of a prosecution. Its attitude at the outset was rather unhelpful, but if now, in consultation with the hon. Member and his friends, its attitude has become more helpful, that is all the better. The hon. Gentleman stated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-11", "file": "debates1954-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d418c022e89f5db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1437.2", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which one?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hill", "preceding_text": "made about the theory, or purpose or motive. The hon. Gentleman made it clear that there were three important points in this proposal. One was the automatic registration of existing premises. That is interesting. It is something which the party opposite criticised bitterly in Committee. The hon. Member for Hills-borough called it a \"sell out.\" The hon. and learned Gentleman called it \"appalling\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-11", "file": "debates1954-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "d418c022e89f5db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1445.2", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOOD AND DRUGS AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "Then the Parliamentary Secretary has been deceiving the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-11a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-12", "file": "debates1954-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "5bb2826379e9ee6e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-12a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "em. I can assure the House that this is the first time I have ever thoroughly agreed with the hon. and gallant Member for Worthing. There are \"bone-headed, tinpot Hitlers\" in the Army, and presumably it is the purpose of this legislation to protect the soldier. Always behind all these disciplinary threats, all this business of keeping the happy citizens together, is the threat of the \"glasshouse\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-12a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-15", "file": "debates1954-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2e6c8706538ae9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-15a.27.10", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOSPITALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shurmer", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that on the committee on which I have sat for the last 30 years, we have quite a number of men who have been sleeping on the floor for over two years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-15a.27.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-15", "file": "debates1954-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2e6c8706538ae9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-15a.73.2", "colnum": "73", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Air Commodore Harvey", "preceding_text": "printed on 29th July. The report does not mention any doubts. We know that the Douglas people were over here negotiating at the time. Undoubtedly they saw the corporation. There is no slur in what I am saying, except in the hon. Gentleman's imagination. There was a firm trying to sell aeroplanes, and I imagine that negotiations on the subject commenced at about the time of the Farnborough display.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-15a.73.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-15", "file": "debates1954-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2e6c8706538ae9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-15a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pargiter", "preceding_text": "dy out of date, and it had to be altered. There have been subsequent modifications because the aircraft was out of date, and, if they do not get something into the air very soon, it will be still further out of date, and that is the challenge to the Bristol Aeroplane Company. When we consider the BE 25 against the DC-7D with the RB 109 engine, the BE 25 will in any case be a much later production.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-15a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-15", "file": "debates1954-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "2e6c8706538ae9b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-15a.127.5", "colnum": "127", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "We are at a point of fundamental disagreement between the two sides of the House. Whereas right hon. and hon. Members opposite sincerely believe in restriction and monopoly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-15a.127.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": " all benefits. The Minister of Pensions and National Insurance was on the defensive. He tried to put a case, but I think that even he would agree that he had great difficulty in doing so. Finally, he pledged the support of the Government to increase benefits, but only as soon as certain reviews had been completed—a further excuse for delay. The Minister has taken up a quite unprecedented position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Since nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "of supply for the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance this afternoon, if he cares to look for one. Now I want to say a word about fuel, that other very important component of the cost-of-living index. I think it would be agreed that fuel is an essential for the aged if they are to survive a harsh winter. Here, again, they are at a disadvantage. The price of coal has increased considerably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.226.0", "colnum": "226", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "ter to tell the House precisely what is his attitude towards National Assistance. I am exceedingly disturbed at his statements regarding the functions of the National Assistance Board, which, I presume, reflect the attitude of the Government. This insidious change has come about since the Conservative Government removed from the chairmanship of the National Assistance Board one of the most humane—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.226.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is wrong with that?", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "gh his pronouncements are only just taking effect? May I remind the House of what this important representative of the Government has said on this subject. On 1st November, in answer to a Question, the Minister said: Our object on this side of the House is to see as few people as possible drawing National Assistance, subject to a means test.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 1st November, 1954; Vol. 523, c. 13.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.226.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " for whom we are asking for an increased pension today. The Minister serves in a Cabinet of men not one of whom has intimate knowledge of the matter under discussion. There is certainly a \"cleavage of political philosophy\" between the two sides of the House—a fundamental cleavage—of which the country is becoming aware. The Minister must not underestimate the intelligence of the old-age pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.230.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "d point out that the Labour Party did, as soon as they came into power in 1945, at least make some attempt to mitigate the miseries of the aged people, for they did raise the pension from its appalling 10s. a week to 26s. Granted,\"— he is being quite fair— this was not enough, but it did show at least an awareness of the position; granted that their subsequent performance left much to be desired\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.230.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "en by the Labour Party just before they left office. Sir Winston's gibe at the Labour Party … can be equally applied to his own party, who also 'looked on helplessly,' for the only attempt they made to remedy a deficiency of 5s. was to give a meagre 2s. 6d.—less than 5d. a day to poor people who needed at the very least a further 2s. 6d. a day if they were to be able to live in any decency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.231.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Look beside you.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " kindly described you\"— It is addressed to old-age pensioners— as a 'first priority,' so the next time you cook your Sunday dinner of a few potatoes, a little onion, and an Oxo cube, stick out your neck and say, 'I am a first priority.' It might make you feel better, though I doubt it. It goes on: Don't these people make you sick? People who smoke cigars which cost as much as your pension.…", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.242.1", "colnum": "242", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I want to say a word or two about rates and dates in reply to the Opposition Motion, which calls for immediate action to improve the old-age pension. What do they mean by immediate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.242.4", "colnum": "242", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Silverman", "preceding_text": "Whatever difficulty my right hon. Friend may be in on that point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.242.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "s will be taken to ensure that the real value of benefits, pensions or allowances is restored. His immediate action seemed to be to restore National Insurance benefits to the purchasing power which they had when the scheme was introduced. I have given these figures in answer to Questions in the House—4s 9d. single and 6s. 3d. married. Are these the figures on which the right hon. Gentleman worked?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " rates, or by amending orders, properly authenticated, before the Post Office officials can pay the new pensions. I would ask hon. Members to remember that. Some of them have suggested that this money might be paid out without our taking the usual precautions. I think it would be agreed by hon. Members on both sides of the House that that would be an entirely irresponsible approach to this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "preceding_text": "onths ago as there is today. There was just as strong a case 12 months ago as there was in the summer. But that was not done. Why was it not done? Perhaps there was no by-election imminent. It may be that. I am not at all sure that there is not another reason, which I shall suggest in a moment. Is it perhaps that everyone, and the workers in particular, are so much better off now under the Tories?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit until Christmas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. B. Godber", "preceding_text": ", not chide us with being slow in these matters. My right hon. Friend has indicated quite clearly this afternoon that he hopes to bring in a Bill as early as possible in the new Session. If hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite really want to see the pensioners get the increases quickly, will they give the Government all possible assistance to get the Bill through at the earliest possible moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "chard II would have recognised as a poll tax, which we in our generation know as \"the stamp\" or insurance contribution. This contribution, or tax paid at a flat rate by every employed person and every employer in respect of every employed person, is in the nature and, in a way, in the tradition of an assigned revenue. We have had whisky money for education; we have had the Road Fund for the roads—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderic Bowen", "preceding_text": "rst reason which is given is that we still await the quinquennial review and the Phillips report, and that it will be quite impossible to introduce comprehensive legislation until they are received and studied. According to the Minister, he is to make an announcement before the Christmas Recess; that is to say, unless I have misinterpreted his words, no Bill is to be introduced until the New Year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Six years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": " in insurance schemes which had been set up by industry? It was the party opposite. Today, we have to look at this broad, picture of an ageing population. Whatever schemes are provided by actuaries or politicians that population can only age safely and be well provided for if the country remains prosperous and in a position in which it can pay for these things. After three years of Socialist rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.278.3", "colnum": "278", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In every generation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Short", "preceding_text": "been handed on to the old-age pensioners or to any other consumer. The case is quite the reverse. The consumer is paying 20 per cent., more when he should be paying 20 per cent. less for his goods. Obviously, that money has mainly gone in increased dividends. In the past nine months dividends have risen by 11 per cent. This is pure Toryism. This is how it works out in every field of national life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Shame on you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Terence Clarke", "preceding_text": "uld try to make out, I think they have had a feeling that everybody else was better off, including Members of Parliament. Let us not forget that it was Socialist Members who raised their own salaries before thinking about the old-age pensioners, and that the reason a Motion of censure was tabled in July was that they suddenly remembered that they had better do something for the old-age pensioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You do not need it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Brigadier Clarke", "preceding_text": "I have already told the House, and the Press, that I refuse to accept one penny for my own benefit until the old-age pensioners receive something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard", "preceding_text": "repeat it. It is: … facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed. That means that we can talk as long as we like, but we cannot get rid of the facts. The things which I have spoken of are beyond dispute. The whole debate today has ranged around the facts. Who is responsible for the welfare of the old people? It is as much the responsibility of the Government as of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "on to do whatever they thought necessary. When the 1951 Bill was introduced, the position of the old-age pensioners was worse than it is today as regards the purchasing power of the pensions which they received. The position today is that the retirement pensions have approximately—indeed, I believe, almost exactly—the same purchasing power as they had when the present Government took over in 1951.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.315.7", "colnum": "315", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "alleged that the House had been grossly misled in March in reference to the problem of aged people. There was nothing which the right hon. Lady had to say today, any more than on the last occasion, to support a Motion of censure against the Government. In point of fact, the right hon. Lady knows very well—her party also knows—that hon. Members opposite are asking for something which is impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.315.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.316.6", "colnum": "316", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I was endeavouring to say that the request made by the party opposite for immediate action is a request for something that they know to be impossible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.316.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.317.7", "colnum": "317", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ould like to say to the right hon. Member for Llanelly (Mr. J. Griffiths), who is to speak for the party opposite, that the similarity between this and colonial affairs is to be found on one point. Here is provided a vast playground of human emotions—and the right hon. Gentleman considers himself to be an adept at playing upon human emotions. He is doing a poor service to himself and to his party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.317.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.330.1", "colnum": "330", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "at is overwhelmingly because of the intensive pressure put upon them by the Labour Party in Parliament, where we have a censure Motion tomorrow, and in the country. If he can believe that he can believe anything. At any rate, it must be some satisfaction to him to know that the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, in spite of the dismal inheritance to which he succeeded, will be able to afford it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady cannot get out of it like that. I have given her account of the difficult administrative job. Today, she asks that it should be done before Christmas—that is what the Motion says.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.333.2", "colnum": "333", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on to the old-age pensioners.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "s his view. Apart from the Phillips Committee, there is the Actuary's report. I have no particular brief for actuaries or statisticians; indeed, I have a good deal of sympathy with the man who defined an actuary as \"a man who is dead on time.\" But who started the Actuary? Why, the Socialists. It is all in the 1946 Act. With one of those statutory valuations just about to be completed, in November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.333.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.334.2", "colnum": "334", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Mr. Griffiths rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.334.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.334.6", "colnum": "334", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order, order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. T. Price", "preceding_text": "Mr. J. T. Price rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.334.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Christmas?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macmillan", "preceding_text": "has made some, too. I hope that when they have settled and the by-election is safely over, all of us in this House, on both sides, will join together in speeding forward a new Bill which will be a new landmark in our social legislation. Here I repeat what I said before, because it is a point upon which the hon. and learned Member for Cardigan insisted. The Bill will be introduced before Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.335.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-16", "file": "debates1954-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "1a8cf980c61ca766", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.339.1", "colnum": "339", "heading": "OLD-AGE PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Minister why he has said nothing about the position of war pensioners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-16a.339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snow", "preceding_text": "r and carrying an object such as a ladder, is not allowed? Furthermore, what reason has the Minister for saying that, in the context of a discussion of this Regulation, the idea was that one brake only should be guaranteed to be efficient? Surely the idea was that safety depends on two independent braking systems being applied simultaneously if necessary, and if one braking system is out of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.379.6", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the much larger number of long-distance vehicles now flying private enterprise colours, resulting in an increase in operational efficiency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.379.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.380.2", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "I think the increasing competition is giving to the consumer greater freedom of choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.381.3", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Popplewell", "preceding_text": "In view of the very small number of vehicles which have been sold, compared with the very large number offered, and as this disposal scheme appears to be a failure, the next step of the British Transport Commission, according to instructions, will be to hive off losses on the bigger quantities. This will establish a private monopoly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.381.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — S.S. \"FAIDHERBE\" (LOSS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": " under the Commonwealth Shipping Agreement, 1931, it was agreed—as long ago as that—that inquiries into occurences of this kind should be either by the Government of the Commonwealth country where the ship is owned, or the Government of the country nearest the territorial waters in the proximity of which the occurrence took place. For me to undertake an inquiry would be a breach of that agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.386.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyatt", "preceding_text": "If, as is evident, the Minister of Defence is not interested in saving the British taxpayer's money by ordering a light aircraft of this type, will he not press on N.A.T.O. that it should order the aircraft because the N.A.T.O. countries cannot afford the very expensive aircraft that we have to buy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Anglo-French alliance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": "was attempted before the 1914 war by the Entente, an act of statesmanship which, however, failed to prevent the First World War, perhaps in part because it was neither sufficiently explicit nor sufficiently emphatic. Again, after the First World War, first by the efforts of the League of Nations and, later, by what I suppose it would be right to describe as a revival of the Franco-German alliance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.402.0", "colnum": "402", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"You did.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman did give way to me. I never said for a moment that-the general question of where the blame lies did not matter. Of course, it matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "d protect ourselves to the maximum extent on that point. I read what was the principal point of the declaration of the Labour Party Conference. They wished, quite rightly, for further discussions among our Continental friends about how to get discussions with the Soviet Union going again and other things. Of course, it must be admitted that there was a large minority at the Scarborough Conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "itting anything—which was even tighter than the majority at Scarborough, as a result of a meeting which was supposed to have been held upstairs. There are these differences of opinion, and I am not going to argue that other opinions are not sincerely held, but I would hope any of my hon. Friends who do not quite accept my point of view would agree that my opinions are sincerely and genuinely held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.426.5", "colnum": "426", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, yes, the right hon. Member did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is a little bit frequent in his interruptions of other people. I have read about them but I cannot find a very clear line. That is all I say. I am not condemning or criticising; I am not too clear about it. As to the argument which my hon. Friend is making—and I am sorry to be landed in the situation of having a first-class debate among ourselves, because I did not start it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.426.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.461.3", "colnum": "461", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the European Army?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "was frustration when the Labour Government failed to take the opportunities of European leadership that were open to them. There was frustration when Continental statesmen tried to impose on Europe a federal structure which was bound to exclude us. There was frustration at the time when this Government seemed to turn theirback on the European system, which their Members had done so much to launch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "convictions and principles would take us into the Lobby to vote against this Agreement tomorrow yet do not vote, the reason will not be any change of conviction, but the fact that if one wants to survive in our party to fight another day one has to accept a majority decision, however unpleasant it may be. Those who are used to being in a majority and ruthlessly imposing their will on the minority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": "ort of German sovereign State it shall be. I would make this point to my right hon. and hon. Friends: they talk about Germany as though the Federal Republic were Germany. Unfortunately, the Federal Republic is only a section of Germany; it is one rival German State against which is set another German State—the East German Republic—which also claims to represent the will of the whole German people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. H. S. Crossman", "preceding_text": " the whole German people. [ Laughter. ] My hon. Friends had better not laugh about the possibilities of East Germany, because when the Russians hold their conference on 29th November, as they certainly will, and when they match West German rearmament by doubling their own, we shall find a very serious rivalry between East Germany and West Germany, starting on the basis of the Nine-Power Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.478.1", "colnum": "478", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "That army will be doubled and the armament race will start from the fact that, in signing the Nine-Power Agreement, we have settled only one thing—which is that there will never be a Four-Power Treaty which unifies Germany. That solution is ruled out by the Nine-Power Agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grossman", "preceding_text": "It seems to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have already done it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " West in order to obtain free elections in Eastern Germany. I do not know whether the Russians would have accepted that; all I say is that it was an offer which we ought to have made before we accepted the risk of taking this irrevocable step. I now come to the question of why the step is irrevocable. Once we have taken it, the Russians will take the other line and do the same thing the other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": "Friend the Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Gaits-kell). We have once again had the useless type of \"say nothing\" statement about it from the Foreign Secretary, which carried us no further in the problem. He will be followed by the Minister of Defence. We hope to get some further information tomorrow. I was struck by an article on Sunday in the \"Sunday Pictorial\" by the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Danes and Belgians?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crossman", "preceding_text": " not affect German democracy. It is an extraordinary situation that the Labour Opposition, despite the fact that the German T.U.C. voted with only four dissentients against the Nine-Power Treaty on the precise grounds that it introduced a grave danger of militarism, should have regarded that lightly. Our international comrades are only quoted when they are on the side of the majority in our party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-17", "file": "debates1954-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "fc06616965dd412b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Legge-Bourke", "preceding_text": "fore I did that, there was no pressure whatever put upon me to do anything which was contrary to my conscience. My right hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Leicester, South-East (Captain Waterhouse) and others who worked with him will remember that they were put under no unfair pressure of the sort to which the hon. Member for Coventry, East referred. Now may I return to the subject of Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-17a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-18", "file": "debates1954-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0fdf5b3f262f083b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "s been universally agreed that international relations are today less strained than they have been for some years past. Everybody has admitted that. The Prime Minister has said so, and the Foreign Secretary has said so. President Eisenhower, Mr. Foster Dulles, M. Mendès-France and Mr. Malenkov have said so. The international situation today is more favourable than it has been for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-18", "file": "debates1954-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0fdf5b3f262f083b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.610.0", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "Russians, on the right hon. Gentleman's own showing, turned them down. So obviously he will either put these proposals again, hoping that the 12 German divisions will then \"get them,\" or he has got some other proposal, either more conciliatory or more belligerent, as representing an addition of strength. The country would like to know, and a lot of my hon. Friends here would like to know, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-18", "file": "debates1954-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0fdf5b3f262f083b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.619.5", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ut to a hydrogen bomb age, and that we should try to come to terms as quickly as possible with our enemies or potential enemies—not that we should give in to what they want at all. No one on this side of the House has argued for a single moment that what the Russians mean at the moment by free elections in Germany is what we mean. But I am convinced that the Russians are prepared to go a long way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.619.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-18", "file": "debates1954-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0fdf5b3f262f083b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I have an engagement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-18", "file": "debates1954-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0fdf5b3f262f083b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get back to the subject.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Boothby", "preceding_text": "I think it may have been I who added. \"Then you admit to being the party of disaster.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-18", "file": "debates1954-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0fdf5b3f262f083b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.653.0", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It was in 1951.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pannell", "preceding_text": " a united Germany. All the experience in this House since I have been here—I go no further than that—tends to disprove the idea that these Agreements will be a barrier to peace. My right hon. Friend the Member for Ebbw Vale did not quote what we can all remember, a most memorable speech on rearmament which he himself made. It was in favour of spending £4,700 million. He told us not to scoff at it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-18", "file": "debates1954-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0fdf5b3f262f083b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the French.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. C. R. Attlee", "preceding_text": "t Herr Adenauer is influenced mainly by electoral considerations. An obvious riposte might be that Herr Ollenhauer is also influenced by electoral considerations. It seems to me that honours are easy on that. We are entitled to give full weight to the views of German Social Democrats, but we must also give full weight to the views of the Danes, the Norwegians, the Dutch, the Belgians and the rest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-18", "file": "debates1954-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0fdf5b3f262f083b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "How do I know that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-18", "file": "debates1954-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "0fdf5b3f262f083b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.689.1", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WESTERN EUROPE", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not before\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "he countries concerned would know of it, and any one of them could raise it at any meeting of the N.A.T.O. Council or of the Western European Union. A great deal of trouble was taken in our decisions on these matters, and there is no doubt that that is the position. In conclusion, may I say this. I have been asked whether, after these Agreements are ratified, we would negotiate with Soviet Russia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-18a.689.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-22", "file": "debates1954-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "0f6adae51ac2088f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTRY OF SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister think that this reticence is hiding something?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-22", "file": "debates1954-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "0f6adae51ac2088f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeffington", "preceding_text": "development of communities all over the country. It is a matter of major importance; not a trifling, twopenny-halfpenny matter. It is a matter of great principle and I cannot understand the rush to deal with the subject in this pell-mell fashion. I am glad to see the Leader of the House present. I hope that even at this stage he will indicate that further time for the Bill might be made available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-22", "file": "debates1954-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "0f6adae51ac2088f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "oing to take him up on that point. The hon. Member for Clapham (Mr. Gibson) said that by giving the information we would be encouraging speculation. I do not think that that is likely to be a consequence. In my view, the more local authorities' intentions are made public in regard to the use or acquisition of a particular piece of land within its area, the less scope there will be for speculation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-22", "file": "debates1954-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "0f6adae51ac2088f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.885.2", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. L. Iremonger", "preceding_text": "hen learns that, if he had established a claim under the 1947 Act or Clause 32 of this Bill, he would have got the difference. He is in exactly the position of a new boy at school who is unaware of the fact that, on the school notice board, it was stated he should attend at a ridiculous time at a ridiculous place; and he does not go and he is beaten. One does not complain about that sort of thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-22", "file": "debates1954-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "0f6adae51ac2088f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member for Leicester, North-East (Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas) has put an amusing but none the less not altogether fair complexion on the new Clause. The Clause was necessary to avoid what otherwise would have been a clear injustice and unfairness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-22", "file": "debates1954-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "0f6adae51ac2088f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.982.0", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "I think we should have some more lucid explanation of how this particular new Clause will work. The Government are going out of their way to try to cover hard cases, but we have only heard of one hard case and that was in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-22", "file": "debates1954-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "0f6adae51ac2088f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "ering to political agitation and putting into a complicated Bill something which has no justification either in law or in fact, or in ordinary business procedure. I do not think the Minister has made out a case. As has been pointed out, the logical thing would be for us to register our disagreement with this Clause in the Lobby, but since that has already been done in the case of the English Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-22", "file": "debates1954-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "0f6adae51ac2088f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodburn", "preceding_text": "putting into a complicated Bill something which has no justification either in law or in fact, or in ordinary business procedure. I do not think the Minister has made out a case. As has been pointed out, the logical thing would be for us to register our disagreement with this Clause in the Lobby, but since that has already been done in the case of the English Bill—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It was not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-22a.985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "h nationalised industries is inspired and endorsed by Her Majesty's Government, and that the practice which is developing, of nationalised industries purchasing large quantities of expensive engineering equipment—and now aircraft—oversea, is undermining British industrial prestige oversea, affecting our export trade, and having a very adverse effect upon our prospects? Cannot my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1031.4", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Would the right hon. Gentleman consider combination of Government action with public spiritedness by putting a ½d. extra on postage stamps? Would he consider something of that kind?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1031.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "The Minister says that there has not been any cut-down, but is he not aware that it was stated that next year houses to rent, built by local authorities, would be limited to 150,000 and that the difference between 150,000 and the normal 200,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "RAILWAYS REORGANISATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "There are different Ministers, but some of us have a different view as to whether that is an improvement or not. What influence has Parliament had in the moulding of this scheme?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1069.6", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "RAILWAYS REORGANISATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyd-Carpenter", "preceding_text": "The word was \"appointed.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1069.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "RAILWAYS REORGANISATION SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Do not be too sure of that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molson", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is as capable of interpreting simple English as I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1125.4", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "s not in any Election manifesto of the Conservative Party—the Government came forth with a Guillotine Motion which made discussion and adequate examination of the Bill impossible. Consequently, the Bill was transformed into an ill-considered, imperfect Act of Parliament, and we are suffering from that as well. From all this party political rush, and the pressure of interests, we are now suffering.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1125.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1125.4", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask 'Tribune'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Herbert Morrison", "preceding_text": "olicy and taste of the newspapers themselves. It is worse than that. For a good many years now there has been a general, but not universal, practice among the newspapers in Fleet Street that they do not attack each other. It is a great pity. Much public interest and amusement are lost by newspapers not attacking each other. It used to be good fun. There is a well-known saying, \"Dog don't eat dog.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1125.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1133.1", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has said that the first two newspaper groups to come into commercial television are Tory. Is he certain that the \"Daily Herald\" representing Socialism, or the \"Tribune,\" or any Liberal group applied? I think that only the two newspaper groups mentioned did apply. It is not a case of exclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1137.2", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "s. Whether, in the end, these people who are going over to commercial television will find things as secure and as rosy as they think, is anyone's guess, because it is not certain that these concerns will be financially successful. The principles of the Government elements, poor as many of them were, have broken down, as is shown in the letter to \"The Times\" this morning, to which I have referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1137.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1143.4", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gammans", "preceding_text": "The actual recording in the minutes of these facts was omitted at the time, but it was put in later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1143.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "In Arks. And if the hon. Gentleman had gone to the trouble of asking him he could have found out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1159.4", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shackleton", "preceding_text": "There is nothing I have to withdraw. I asked the right hon. Gentleman—if hon. Gentlemen would get a little less excited they would have seen this was widely canvassed in the Press. It has not been denied, and I merely ask for information. I have found out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1159.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Beverley Baxter", "preceding_text": " on Olympus. He referred to terrific interference, spreading the kingdom into the clouds, not only governing what we see and read with our eyes, but also taking our ears. He then said that only two newspaper organisations had taken programmes. The right hon. Gentleman cannot have it both ways. I have never seen a jockey try to ride two horses going in different directions. That would be difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "telephone conversation, in the course of which Sir Kenneth said: I can tell you that we are going to provide an alternative and not a competitive service with the B.B.C. He went on to explain why there ought to be an alternative and not a competitive service. That was a common sense approach, as we on this side of the House had all been saying throughout the two years of discussion on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Darling", "preceding_text": "or the viewers—the viewers had not been mentioned during the course of the Bill—the Assistant Postmaster-General said, \"We have other interests to consider.\" How well they are being considered now. We do not like this Act because it puts commercial interests before the public and the viewers' interests. I agree that there should be competition in radio and television. We have been pleading for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What of it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "ember hopes to see introduced at some time in the future. The speech was also very different in its content from the Second Reading speeches made on the Act itself by hon. Members opposite. It passes my comprehension how this can be a Motion of censure on the Government. There are only two Front Bench names attached to the Motion and the debate was not wound up by a Front Bench spokesman opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "n and the debate was not wound up by a Front Bench spokesman opposite. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What of it?\"] That is the common form on a Motion of censure, the common Parliamentary practice which the Labour Party is always very rightly proud to fulfil. Let us look at the Motion itself. The House is asked to express its alarm, the House in this context being of course hon. and right hon. Members opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1174.1", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Alarming.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": "alarmed\" at all but \"delighted\" is the word. What action has been taken to date? How is the Act operating? After all, it is not quite four months to the actual day since the Royal Assent was given. What action has taken place in between which has been viewed with such alarm? The first thing which had to happen was that my noble Friend the Postmaster-General had to appoint members of the Authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "TELEVISION ACT (OPERATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": ", I do not believe that the whole of the rest of the British Press will never criticise at all. And even if they do not, even if they gave up their right of criticism, it is the great British public which in the end will be the critic. It looks as though hon. Members opposite think that these programmes are to be Tory Party propaganda. With all due respect, that would be a terribly dull programme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-23", "file": "debates1954-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "9a875446f36261ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "GOVERNMENT COLD STORES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": " prepared to leave it at that. What are we asked to do? We are asked to accept the position that the least efficient storage accommodation shall be used and the most efficient shall not be used. That is a doctrine to which I should not think the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South (Sir W. Darling) would subscribe. It is astonishing to see the subterfuges to which politicians are driven when they try—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-23a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-24", "file": "debates1954-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "617ca7a5df6b855e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen", "preceding_text": "ke the Minister to tell us whether the Government propose to do anything to assist farmers and, despite the Government's unfortunate experiences in the past, to do anything about grass drying and silage projects so as to avoid a disaster of this kind in future. If something is not done to help the farmers, substantial harm will be done to food production. I apologise for keeping the House so long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-24", "file": "debates1954-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "617ca7a5df6b855e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Probert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Probert", "preceding_text": "ccasion on which I have addressed the House. I do so because I follow in the footsteps of a man who, by his conscientiousness, his loyalty to his party and, above all, his sincerity, earned the love of hon. Members of this House. Indeed, it has become apparent to me in the last fortnight that I have been here that that love has been shared by right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-24", "file": "debates1954-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "617ca7a5df6b855e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1275.0", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Toryism?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": " in dealing with these pockets of unemployment. There are untapped resources in Caernarvon, Anglesey and Merioneth, and if industries are introduced I hope that whoever introduces them will pay great attention to the need for light industries auxiliary to the native wealth of the area, which is found, of course, in agriculture and forestry—and also in tourism, which, I think, we are apt to forget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1275.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-24", "file": "debates1954-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "617ca7a5df6b855e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1277.1", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. L. Mort", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. L. Mort", "preceding_text": "ived in it and kept it in order. The streets were idle. What happened to some of our best men? They were driven to America. My uncle went there. There is one thing that I might say, which has nothing to do with this debate, but which will, I think, demonstrate the adaptability of the tin-plate worker—that is that his granddaughter is Joan Crawford, the film star. These men are genuinely concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-24", "file": "debates1954-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "617ca7a5df6b855e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1328.2", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which paragraph?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "Output of bricks has continued to increase and was 7 per cent. higher than in 1952–53. But the sole paragraph dealing with the slate industry starts on a different note: Production of slates fell by over 5 per cent. The most depressing observation is to be found in the middle of the paragraph.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-24", "file": "debates1954-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "617ca7a5df6b855e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell that to your hon. Friends.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": " think that the terms and provisions of that Act generally commend themselves to every section of the industrial community as being the only reasonable formula for the prevention, in the post-war world, of the development of seriously distressed pockets in South Wales, on the North-East coast, in Cumberland and elsewhere. I do not think any one political party should claim the credit for that Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-24", "file": "debates1954-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "617ca7a5df6b855e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1332.1", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nabarro", "preceding_text": "eliable guide. I direct the attention of all hon. Members to page 55 of the Sixth Annual Report of the British Electricity Authority for the year ended 31st March, 1954, and to the table at the foot of that page. They will find there that the increase in electric power sales for 1953–54 over 1952–53 in respect of the South Wales Electricity Board was no less than 7·5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-24", "file": "debates1954-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "617ca7a5df6b855e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1342.7", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garner Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not more than two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garner Evans", "preceding_text": "rading estate company, as at present legislated for and regulated, cannot help us. I want to reinforce the pleas made by the hon. Members for Caernarvon (Mr. G. Roberts) and Merioneth (Mr. T. W. Jones) that the Board of Trade should find out how to help these areas. Not only is there cultural wealth in them, but wealth of manpower and social amenity. I would now say a word or two about devolution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1342.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-24", "file": "debates1954-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "617ca7a5df6b855e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1342.7", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garner Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why in another place\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garner Evans", "preceding_text": " gallant Friend must be assisted in this matter. What I suggest is not a Royal Commission to go into the subject of administrative devolution, because this Royal Commission has already done the work—why duplicate it?—but that between now and next Tuesday my right hon. and gallant Friend should insist upon legislation being passed creating a new Minister of State for Welsh Affairs in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-24a.1342.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-30", "file": "debates1954-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "34b3dcdb7d8d85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-30a.17.1", "colnum": "17", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [FIRST DAY]", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Anthony Eden)", "preceding_text": " forget for an instant where those constituencies were. I share the view of the Leader of the Opposition about the country air which my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, South-West brought to us. I liked the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, South-West for another reason. I thought he made the best case for the Government's agricultural policy that anybody could possibly contrive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-30a.17.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-30", "file": "debates1954-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "34b3dcdb7d8d85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-30a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [FIRST DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "an adequate transport system is essential, if we are effectively to compete in the markets of the world. Unfortunately, we have also to admit that the layout of our roads falls far behind modern needs. The truth is that the pattern of the system in this country dates back to life and trade as they prevailed in the Middle Ages. Everyone is familiar with the origins of the twisting English highways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-30a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-30", "file": "debates1954-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "34b3dcdb7d8d85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-30a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [FIRST DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. C. Manuel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. C. Manuel", "preceding_text": "ivately. In the meantime, the housing problem in Scotland is still so immense that I do not think we need to depart from the authorities' lists to get would-be tenants. I see that the Minister of Health is laughing. I do not know whether he thinks that the position in England is any better than in Scotland, but I could take him to some places in England where the conditions are very nearly as bad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-30a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-11-30", "file": "debates1954-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "34b3dcdb7d8d85db", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-30a.88.3", "colnum": "88", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS [FIRST DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about India?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Darling", "preceding_text": " industries and her wealth, and quarrelled with France in order to make peace with her. Was that magnanimity justified? It is a hard world that we live in. I wish it were a different world, but when I look at it it seems that the policy of magnanimity is one of proven danger and should be re-examined. Has magnanimity with Egypt been justified? Oh, no. Has magnanimity with the Sudan been justified?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-11-30a.88.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "r—\"The Times,\" a reputable organ which usually supports the Government? The statement was that he had instructed Field Marshal Montgomery—I doubt whether he was a Field Marshal at the time, but there is no doubt who is meant—to collect and stack surrendered German arms so that they could easily be issued again to the German soldiers with whom we should have to work if the Soviet advance continued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.161.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "With German troops?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course, if they went on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "All I say at the moment is that there is something quite different—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " from the last war fired constantly from the heights of Dover in this war. There is great joy here. That last remark referred to the fact that the Germans had surrendered. It is, of course, perfectly true that many weapons and much equipment salvaged from the First World War—surrendered by the Germans or captured from them—were used in the Second World War because we were not well enough prepared.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.163.2", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Neither did you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": " perfectly true that many weapons and much equipment salvaged from the First World War—surrendered by the Germans or captured from them—were used in the Second World War because we were not well enough prepared. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members opposite ought to be careful, because they gave precious little support to the right hon. Gentleman when he made speeches from below the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ion with Soviet Russia. If I had to engage for business purposes somebody who I knew was working against me I should be very careful. Anyway, we shall see. No doubt the right hon. Gentleman will illuminate our minds on the subject. Let us get the full facts from him. Nothing less will suffice. In this field of foreign relations the right hon. Gentleman, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman to correct me. I am familiar with Shakespeare's work; I learned it when I was in prison. Unless the Prime Minister can illuminate our minds on the subject I have dealt with, I am afraid that people abroad as well as at home will hardly feel that the right hon. Gentleman has done the right thing in making that speech. I do not wish to detain the House for more than a few moments longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Sir Winston Churchill)", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman has asked for the text of the message. Indeed, I should be very glad to give that to the House—when I find it. It may well be that I never used these precise words in a telegram to a general—not a field marshal; I beg pardon for that—to General Montgomery as he was at that time. Indeed, it may be, as the right hon. Gentleman has several times suggested, that it was never sent at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.170.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Wigg", "preceding_text": "ram was not sent. He says the telegram did not go. Of course, this is what I believed all the time, but that, again, does not underline the serious side of the matter. I think that my right hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Mr. Shinwell) was right when he said that the serious thing is that there has been no Soviet reaction. The Soviet Union can turn round and say, \"We knew this all the time.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "It is fair to say that the absorption of these new reserves into the Regular squadrons in this way is brought about by the failure of the Government's programme to get sufficient recruits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-01", "file": "debates1954-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "3fb967ca277c7927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.284.4", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "icly-owned sector of industry the problem has been solved. In the publicly-owned sector we have seen that capital investment can be increased whenever it is Government policy that it should be allowed to increase. I recommend to the President of the Board of Trade the document called \"Challenge to Britain,\" which would greatly extend his knowledge of the economic problems and the solution to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-01a.284.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-02", "file": "debates1954-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f8645e7deaccc703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I will take note of that suggestion. The right hon. Gentleman knows that it is rather difficult, at short notice, to pledge one's colleague to make a statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-02", "file": "debates1954-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f8645e7deaccc703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.330.0", "colnum": "330", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Williams", "preceding_text": "Before that is let loose outside this House, the right hon. Gentleman must admit that I never referred to the word \"allocation\" throughout my speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.330.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-02", "file": "debates1954-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f8645e7deaccc703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.336.6", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Make a speech presently.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I do not think I am being unfair. The Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.336.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-02", "file": "debates1954-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f8645e7deaccc703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.342.0", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amory", "preceding_text": "I should not have the nerve to set up an inquiry into the position in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.342.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-02", "file": "debates1954-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f8645e7deaccc703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.364.3", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Clarke", "preceding_text": "I suggest that it owes it to the work of the agricultural institutes in the counties, and to the young farmers' clubs. That is what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.364.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-02", "file": "debates1954-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f8645e7deaccc703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.425.1", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speir", "preceding_text": "Now, it is 2s. 6d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-02", "file": "debates1954-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f8645e7deaccc703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Major McCallum", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A non-political Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major McCallum", "preceding_text": "n the end be made, I do not know, but I hope that the greatest care will be taken, when the Bill is introduced, to look after the old people properly. I want to make a plea about the type of persons to be nominated to be the chairman and members of the Crofters' Commission. I say this with all due respect, but I hope that the chairman of the Commission is not going to be a politician of any party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-02", "file": "debates1954-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f8645e7deaccc703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"French?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "re yesterday a farmer from Kent, a man not in association with my party, just as none of those at the meeting in Devon last night were, who gave me one example of the effect of this scheme. He said, \"I had to sell something at the beginning of this winter, and I sold some barley. When I offered it to my merchant, he said, 'I really do not want it. I can buy, and am buying, French foreign barley—'\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-02", "file": "debates1954-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f8645e7deaccc703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " just as none of those at the meeting in Devon last night were, who gave me one example of the effect of this scheme. He said, \"I had to sell something at the beginning of this winter, and I sold some barley. When I offered it to my merchant, he said, 'I really do not want it. I can buy, and am buying, French foreign barley—'\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"French?\"] Hon. Members should not jump. Foreign barley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-02", "file": "debates1954-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "f8645e7deaccc703", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snadden", "preceding_text": "onfidence within the industry and said that this was endangering production. I do not believe it. I happen to be a farmer on no small scale. If there were lack of confidence, I should be feeling it, should I not? It has not prevented me from putting up a grain dryer during the past year. I realise that when there is a change to a freer economy farmers are a little apprehensive as to what it means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-02a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-03", "file": "debates1954-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6c524cb6f70137d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-03a.469.5", "colnum": "469", "heading": "MEMBERS' SPEECHES (INTERJECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harmar Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harmar Nicholls", "preceding_text": "ery many more than 14. I was very incensed about that yesterday, and I must confess that I felt it was just to deal with the right hon. Gentleman in a way similar to that in which he had dealt with my right hon. Friend. I must confess that I interjected during his speech, and for that I should like to apologise. But I feel that now we ought to 'have some guidance about our demeanour in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-03a.469.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-03", "file": "debates1954-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "6c524cb6f70137d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-03a.530.1", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Campbell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Campbell", "preceding_text": "iving personal injury. My right hon. Friend has left this country, the people of Northern Ireland, and people all over the world, in no doubt about his sentiments towards Northern Ireland. He will be welcome in Belfast whenever he comes, and we hope that he will visit us in the very near future. The hon. Member referred to democracy. In Northern Ireland today democracy is seen working at its best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-03a.530.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.592.0", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (RENT INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jeger", "preceding_text": "Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that in many of the cases of which I have given him particulars those concerned have gone to the bureaux and have been advised that they have a very good case for not paying but that the bureaux can only advise them to take the landlords to court, which they cannot do because they are on National Assistance anyhow?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.592.2", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (RENT INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "Generally speaking, increases under the Act will be at the same level in each area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.592.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE (RENT INCREASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": "I go back to the former Question because, in Scotland, rent increases are being called for from tenants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": " the Soviet proposals were for a paper ban, because they said there must be an immediate ban, and there must be agreement to establish the control organ. The ban would start at once, and then we should start to work out an agreement with regard to a control organ. There was much talk about this, and much pressing of the Soviet representatives upon this. The furthest that we could get them to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.624.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.640.1", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "So what?", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader A. Cooper", "preceding_text": "Would the hon. Member say how many non-Communists have been killed by this incorruptible Chinese Government since it came to power?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ing the hardships of the peasantry in China, I said to myself, \"Yes, and there, but for the grace of our inventors in this country, go we.\" Unless we find a source of energy to replace the sources of fossil fuel, which we are using up at such a rapid rate, there we will go in this country. It is we who will be pushing the barrow, and carrying the baskets of earth, and in a not very distant future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates", "preceding_text": "other issue which could create more fear in the world than the rearmament of Germany. Russia has made it perfectly clear all along that whatever happened she would be bound to take action, and I am not at all surprised that there is now talk of further rearmament in the East to meet what it believes to be the danger from the West. The Prime Minister has greatly endangered the atmosphere in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What were you doing there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Yates", "preceding_text": "pared to drop them, but I cannot associate all this with Christianity. Lord Montgomery continued: —let us dedicate the comradeship of the desert, and serve the British flag and carry it across whatever barriers still bar the way to broad lands of friendship among men. I notice that Lord Montgomery fled across to America and was recently in Omaha. What was he doing there? I was in Omaha a year ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.657.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who are the fools?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "t is probably one of the most critical international situations which we have ever had to face, let us be calm and not rush into doing things which we might afterwards regret. We have strength on our side today. The United States is on our side, and we are strong. The time has come when we can negotiate successfully, but do not let us rush into it, because Fools step in where angels fear to tread.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.699.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.712.3", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I present it as my private opinion, and the House must accept it as a private opinion. The initiative which the Prime Minister showed 18 months ago rapidly disappeared as soon as he became ill and Lord Salisbury went to Washington. When the noble Lord returned he would not even admit that he had pressed for top level talks, which was the object of the Washington meeting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.712.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-06", "file": "debates1954-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "feb1745854222a29", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.723.1", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Eden", "preceding_text": "down too much into detail. The right hon. Gentleman says that we should have talks at the highest level on the matter of disarmament. I defy anyone who has tried to examine this topic to divorce disarmament from all the other questions. So what the right hon. Gentleman really asks is that, at the highest level, there should be talks on a detailed subject which is perhaps the most technical of all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-06a.723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.792.0", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "I believe I am comparing like with like, but if the Government say that they really believe that offering a 7 or 7½ per cent. dividend is cheaper than offering 3½ per cent. I stand to be corrected, but I do think that is very good arithmetic. I turn to the question of controls. Our view on controls of the economy is not that we believe in controls for their own sake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.801.0", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Football pools.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gaitskell", "preceding_text": "ite, because we have roused that public opinion. But we also know that very much remains to be done. Wealth is still concentrated in far too few hands. The latest figures still show that 1 per cent. of the population owns half the wealth in the country. Great capital gains still accumulate day after day and week after week, not in the hands of the community but in the hands of private individuals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.801.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I have given way too often.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.808.5", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "vidends as a percentage of capital employed. I agree that it is an interesting problem, which we could argue at length, but in considering the level of dividends it is just as relevant to take account of the amount of capital employed as it is in considering the level of wages to take into account the number of people employed. Dividends are a return on capital, as wages are the reward for labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.808.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. I. O. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. I. O. Thomas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. Would it be possible for the Minister to explain to your satisfaction and to hon. Members generally why, on this occasion, he has chosen to give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Herbison", "preceding_text": " lb. increase in the price of tea. When I read of these increases in the price of tea, one after another, I am reminded of another propaganda statement of the Tories, when they were seeking power. They said, \"Return us to power and we will set the people free.\" My word—they have set some people free; they have set the profiteers free to make the biggest profits they can out of the ordinary people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.827.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.831.1", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Heald", "preceding_text": " which we have heard from the other side of the House. It is, of course, entirely inconsistent with the whole spirit and outlook of Socialism, because the attitude of Socialism towards the individual is just the same as the attitude of George Stephenson when he was asked what was to happen to animals when his trains began running. I understand that he replied that it would be very bad for the cow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.831.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And tea.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "economics, seems to me to take on the role of the Almighty from time to time, claimed that he had played a substantial part in the reducing prices of imports into this country. That is a bold claim, and a dangerous one. If he claims the credit for reducing some, he must, I suppose, take the blame for increasing others. If he could reduce the price of wheat, why does he not reduce the price of oil?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.854.0", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And on the Labour benches, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fienburgh", "preceding_text": "serious, a differential in wealth. Whenever hon. Members opposite think in terms of someone attacking differentials in wealth a sort of wave of moral indignation sweeps over them, and they exclaim, \"You are going to attack someone's private property.\" Even though a man has inherited a considerable sum of money—and there are some on the benches opposite who have inherited some within recent months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.866.0", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Price or quantity?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "re food than in the three previous years. That is reflected in the sales from ordinary shops and from the co-operative societies. The latter had £743 million worth of sales last year, which is about £30 million higher than their best year ever before. It is reflected by the sales from stores like Woolworth's, who sell to the ordinary working people of this country, whom we represent in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.866.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.872.1", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Have you? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": "irst reason is that there is more for people to buy. Money does not seem to go so far, because there is more to spend it on. The second reason is that the wage increases which the workers have enjoyed, and the reduction in taxation, have not always been passed on to their wives, who pay any cost of living increase. I ask hon. Gentlemen opposite whether their own recent increase has been passed on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.872.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.888.1", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "x; it has never been a revenue tax, and never can be. Its sum last year was about £130 million out of a total Budget of £4,500 million. I am all in favour of that tax so long as it remains a tax merely to take from those who are better off what they can afford to give, but in the hands of hon. Members opposite it becomes a tax merely of spite to dispossess the possessors and I think that is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to get involved in that one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tax-free.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "is an easy one. For about 12 years, money has been put back to reserve, ploughed back into the companies, so that now in most companies there is the share capital and the general reserve beneath it, and very often the general reserve outweighs the nominal capital. In these circumstances, all that a bonus issue means is that the company is now giving to the shareholders what was always their right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "l that a bonus issue means is that the company is now giving to the shareholders what was always their right. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Tax-free.\"] No, it is not giving anything tax-free. What a stupid answer. If I plough back money into a company and then I double the share capital, what advantage do I get? Instead of having one share worth £1, I have two shares worth 10s. each. That is all that happens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.889.1", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Then why do it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre", "preceding_text": "ht. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Tax-free.\"] No, it is not giving anything tax-free. What a stupid answer. If I plough back money into a company and then I double the share capital, what advantage do I get? Instead of having one share worth £1, I have two shares worth 10s. each. That is all that happens. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is quite simple. One has only to look at any bonus issue to see that that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.889.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "r of the Exchequer, who has spent the last three years, with the enthusiastic support of his colleagues, trying to inculcate into this country the philosophy, \"I am all right, Jack. To hell with you,\" trying to inculcate in this country the philosophy of \"Every man for himself and devil take the hindmost\"; every man for himself, even if it leads to the old and the sick, the women and the children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "lf. The Government had been asked if they thought nationalisation to be a complete and utter failure, and the Parliamentary Secretary replied: … that is disproved, and certainly we do not consider that the industry for which we are responsible is a 'complete and utter failure.'\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT, 25th October, 1954; Vol. 531, c. 1715.] That is a complete contradiction of the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.898.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "1952.", "preceding_speaker": "Captain L. P. S. Orr", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has quoted unemployment as running at 6·4 per cent. When I first raised the matter three years ago in this House, it was running at 10·4 per cent. Can the right hon. Gentleman tell me why it was that he did not take an interest in our affairs then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " right hon. Member had quoted against him today the famous phrase about \"rounding recovery corner.\" He did not like to be reminded of that. The right hon. Gentleman also said that his Government had left behind the old scarcity economics of the capitalist world. So they did, and in 1946 bread was rationed for the first time in history. In 1947, potatoes were rationed for the first time in history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.906.3", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "number of our imports automatically went up 40 per cent. In 1951 we had the final crisis, which may have been worth enduring because it had one great redeeming feature—it lead to the resignation of the Labour Government. We have never shown the slightest sign of complacency; we have always been cautious in our explanations of the improvements that are being made. We have approached these problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.906.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.907.1", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "difficulties, but we also say that while the Leader of the Opposition may have been right in speaking about the salvaging his Government had to do, we had to do plenty of salvaging in 1951. We have announced various improvements as they came along, but we have never been complacent. We have always been cautious and shown that we were nowhere near the top of the hill. We are nowhere near there yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.907.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ly for the moment, but for a long time to come. That prophecy was not fulfilled. If we are to be censured for the controls that we have removed, the inference is that the Oppostion will put them back. I am fortified in that thought by the statement in \"Challenge to Britain,\" which says: Labour will restore the powers of control which have been removed by the Tory Government. That is the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "EMBERS: \"Read on.''] I will do my own reading. I want to know whether that means that the right hon. Gentleman and his right hon. and hon. Friends envisage returning to a situation such as that in which there were in the courts 1,700 cases a month of citizens being prosecuted for petty offences, many of which they did not know were offences. Is that the sort of situation into which we are to move?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": " that in which there were in the courts 1,700 cases a month of citizens being prosecuted for petty offences, many of which they did not know were offences. Is that the sort of situation into which we are to move? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] No? All right. Does the restoration of controls removed by Her Majesty's present Ministers in this Parliament mean that we are going straight back to food rationing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.909.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "High tea?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "his progressive restoration of economic freedom and flexibility is an essential part of our philosophy, and it is succeeding, and I pray in aid some words from \"U.S. News and World Report\" of 16th July of this year: Something like a new economic era is beginning in Britain. The British, having finally shaken off wartime controls and turned away from Socialist adventures, appear to be in high gear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.911.1", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "It seems to have affected some hon. Members more than it should. \"High gear\" has meant, in this connection, in the departure from controls, that words familiar three years ago have passed out of the daily vocabulary. \"Austerity,\" \"short supply,\" \"registered customers,\" \"cuts,\" \"bottlenecks,\" \"points,\" \"utility,\" \"black market,\" \"under the counter\" have all disappeared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.911.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.912.0", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tea.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ist intellectuals. When they came into office, according to their theories the country should have prospered as never before. In point of fact, it did have crises, it did have chronic shortages, and it did have no houses. The theorists failed and when we came in the Socialist intellectuals said, \"Now that planning and controls are abandoned, there will be 1 million unemployed, prices will rocket\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.911.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.912.2", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tea.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "ich and no houses for the poor as well as cuts in the social services.\" Again, the theorists failed. The poor Socialist intellectuals. They are pundits in planning and potterers in practice. To reverse engines now is a very poor alternative. What we have been able to do in our time has been to avoid these crises every two years. We have paid our way in the world and we have got more stable prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.912.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-07", "file": "debates1954-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "8dfc63e7e0bd67d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.912.6", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — QUEEN'S SPEECH", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Tea.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "No, I have not got the time to give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-07a.912.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.942.4", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brockway", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. In view of that last remark, might I be permitted to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.942.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I have already said that we have had replies from a certain number of our Territories. In fact, of under 20 from whom we have had replies, ankle chains are being used in only nine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "obal cost—with the £39 million which was extra expenditure out of the Insurance Fund in the year 1951. It did not come out of the Exchequer in 1951. It came out of the National Insurance Fund. Of course, the true comparison with his figure of £39 million for 1951 is not the £10 million which he quoted; it is the £120 million out of the Insurance Funds which we are to find as a result of this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "r increase when we built up the scheme. I am prepared to face up to increased contributions, but we think that it is absolutely right that not only should there be an increase from the workers but that there should be one from the employers and the State. There should be proportion in this matter.\"—[OFFICIAL REPORT. 21st July, 1954; Vol. 530, c. 1475.] That, of course, is what this Bill proposes —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has not followed what I was saying. All I was saying was that the addition over and above the actuarial contribution made in October, 1951, the 4d., was to be borne by the workman and his employer. There was, of course, an Exchequer supplement under the Act of 1946—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.975.2", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " in paragraphs 171 to 173, where it suggests that if any increase in benefit rates were made it would be right and proper to add something to the actuarial contribution towards meeting the inevitable deficiencies. I now turn to the question which is worrying not only the right hon. Member for Llanelly and his hon. Friend the Member for Mansfield (Mr. B. Taylor), but also the Trades Union Congress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.975.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "Yes, there is no difference between us there. I protested very strongly against this arbitrary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.'", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "We all endorse the Minister's peroration, but I only wish that it had set the tone of the whole of his speech. It was most unfortunate that the Minister devoted all this time—70 minutes—to so much detail, which served rather to irritate than to convince even his own back benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Edith Summerskill", "preceding_text": "always makes it hard for me to say, \"I told you so.\" I have raised it for this reason. I think that the right hon. Gentleman has treated the Phillips Committee in a grossly inconsiderate manner. This Report, which is of tremendous importance, is a rushed report. I am not giving my own opinion only. Let me quote what \"The Times,\" which is generally accepted by both sides of the House as being fair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": " different ways. We have accepted the contributory principle. France has decided to have a differential rate, and other countries have decided on a social security scheme. It may be that if a full discussion could be had we would plump for the contributory system. All right, but the time has come to discuss it, to analyse it, and to look at it. There might be controversy on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.984.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member asks me a question. The answer is that I struck a bargain with hon. and right hon. Gentlemen opposite, and I adhered to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "ility in the price level, and that can only come through good administration. In the last 18 months of Socialism prices went up by 12 per cent. In the last 18 months of this Government prices have only gone up to 2·1 per cent. Help to the old people and, indeed, to the whole country can only come from an increase in production. We can make play with figures in this House as much as we like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And their tea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Ridsdale", "preceding_text": "one up to 2·1 per cent. Help to the old people and, indeed, to the whole country can only come from an increase in production. We can make play with figures in this House as much as we like. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Hon. Members opposite have made great play with them this afternoon, but what matters to the old people is that their coal should be cheaper, their light should be cheaper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. B. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. B. Taylor", "preceding_text": "and on previous occasions about the Exchequer supplement being reduced in 1951 from one-fifth to one-seventh. If there were any validity in his criticism, then instead of continuing the reduction he would have seized the opportunity in 1952—and he has the opportunity on this occasion—of restoring the pre-1951 position. The Minister was not clear today in his handling of the finances of the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Too many too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "l forward. They have brought it forward within three years, not five. The hon. Member—rather inconsistently, I thought—called upon us to withdraw the Bill. Of one thing I am certain. It is that millions of older men and women at this moment are profoundly thankful that within, not six months as the hon. Member for Mansfield said but 4½ months, they have the prospect of receiving more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But you are from the Treasury.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Henry Brooke)", "preceding_text": "ult, and one result only. It would postpone the time when these benefits could become payable and would snatch enjoyment from the people whom the Bill is designed to benefit. For that reason, what we have to do is, not to speak in terms of scrapping the Bill, but to examine whether this is the best Bill which can be brought forward, as I, speaking as a Treasury Minister, intend to show that it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1069.1", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "What I understood the right hon. Lady to say was that the alteration from one-seventh to one-fifth would make it possible to reduce the contribution to 1d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1069.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "£91 million from the Exchequer; five years hence as to £519 million from contributions, as to £236 million from the Exchequer; in 1979–80 as to £531 million from countributions, and as to £517 million from the Exchequer. At that time the Exchequer will be carrying 49 per cent. of the cost and the proportion will later rise to over 50 per cent. I read this in the \"Daily Herald\" this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-08", "file": "debates1954-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "f129acf98a6ab3a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In tea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "Budget, it will be some argument. Granted that it is to be a contributory scheme, we must also take it for granted surely that increased benefits should be accompanied by increased contributions. Under the Bill an increase of £2 12s. a year in a man's contribution earns him an increase of £19 10s. a year in pension and various other extra rights. Where could one find a better investment than that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-08a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1098.1", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Not in Harley Street.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will appreciate that there are special circumstances here, because doctors are very often required for emergency calls both to hospitals and patients.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1098.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1111.4", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY (MILITARY DOCUMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am bound to say that I thought it was rather unworthy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1111.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1112.6", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY (MILITARY DOCUMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. M. Lindsay", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the whole nation will agree with him that this Question on the Order Paper is beneath contempt?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1112.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1113.4", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY (MILITARY DOCUMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I understood the right hon. Gentleman. Was he referring to the supplementary question asked by the hon. Member for Solihull (Mr. M. Lindsay)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1113.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Jay", "preceding_text": "d the Bill prepared, and approved by the Government, between Saturday and Monday. Nobody really believes that. And if it is not true the main reason given for keeping the old people waiting all these months is exposed as just a cynical pretence. I should like to ask the Minister now: was this Bill already in print on Monday, 29th November? If he would like to answer that question, I will give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1136.3", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marples", "preceding_text": "hink that the man in the street will consider the extra 1s. excessive. We may have all sorts of abstruse calculations, and the Opposition may be right in what they say, and certainly the right hon. Lady the Member for Fulham, West was most reasonable in her speech yesterday, but the estimates of what the amount of contribution should be, varied on that side of the House between ½d. and 10d.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1156.3", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "embers opposite were commending themselves to the country by what they considered their ample contribution to deal with it. Unless they are serious about that, they had better shut up. We are, therefore, dealing merely with a form of taxation. I speak as a person who has been associated with the mining industry all his life—as a miner, a miners' official and, today, a miners' Member of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1156.3", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": " and who require only half the number of people to investigate their position? Whether we consider this as a long-term or short-term Measure, the Government should think again. They can quite easily alter the Bill. They can leave the benefits as they are and bring in their long-term Measure in six months' time. There is ample money in the Fund to meet the increases in the benefits in the meantime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1156.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Vaughan-Morgan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Vaughan-Morgan", "preceding_text": "wances should be borne by general taxation as opposed to the Insurance Scheme. There is another important fact worth remembering, and that is that we are discussing family allowances and insurance benefits. The fact is that of all the social benefits, family allowances are the least appreciated. I think that that has a great deal to do with the fact that they are not paid for out of contributions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about wartime?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "y the Bill is necessary at all. Why are the Government bringing it forward after three years of office? First of all, they are bringing it forward because of the considerable increase in the cost of living. The hon. Member for Mitcham said that benefits would be at a record level; but the cost of living is at a record level in time of peace. The cost of food has never been higher than it is today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1195.1", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is becoming confused. He said that the Labour Government introduced a means test. That is quite inaccurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1195.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Quite right.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Griffiths", "preceding_text": "here tonight. He has taken part in other debates. These things are on record. The Actuary's Report was signed on 15th November. The Minister of National Insurance says, \"I cannot bring in the Bill before I have the Report, yet four days before the Actuary signed the Report the Minister of Defence said, at the West Derby by-election: When you see the details of our proposals, you will be satisfied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "It is quite clear that the Minister of Defence, who is a member of the Cabinet and has taken part in the two last debates which we have had in this House, knew the details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "It is quite clear that the Minister of Defence, who is a member of the Cabinet and has taken part in the two last debates which we have had in this House, knew the details. [An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"] He spoke about them at West Derby, and he said so. What do these words mean, \"When you see the details of our proposals\"? He meant that he had seen them himself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-09", "file": "debates1954-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "b6aa0b0e5bee8a90", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1227.5", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macleod", "preceding_text": " per cent. irresistibly comic. I believe that there is only one time in our political history at which such a thing could have been said—the time of the Socialist Government—and only one person who could have said it, the Chancellor of the Exchequer at that time. It has been a disastrous thing for the future of our social services that that most disastrous of all Chancellors the right hon. Bishop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-09a.1227.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-10", "file": "debates1954-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "4ca4392ff862468f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-10a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "NEW TOWNS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An understatement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Lindgren", "preceding_text": "ay to get the most economic use of this £100 million which we are voting today. I ask the Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, who I understand is going to reply, to give a firm statement of policy about new towns, not only for London's overspill but for the whole of England, Wales and Scotland. Scotland is perhaps even worse than England in some of the social conditions in the big cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-10a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-13", "file": "debates1954-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a7b3f437b078714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1417.2", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "Clause 1.—(HIGHER RATES, ETC., OF CON TRIBUTIONS AND BENEFIT UNDER INDUSTRIAL INJURIES ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. G. Brown", "preceding_text": "ny less important. The hon. Member for Heeley (Mr. P. Roberts) said that I did not do myself justice. That is all right by me. The more often hon. Gentlemen opposite say that about me, the more comfortable I am in other respects. Whether or not he felt that I was not doing myself justice, I must say that I thought that the Minister fell incredibly short of doing himself any kind of justice at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-13", "file": "debates1954-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a7b3f437b078714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1434.2", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Clause 2.—(HIGHER RATES, ETC., OF CON TRIBUTIONS AND BENEFIT UNDER NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946, AND ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EXCHEQUER.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "New entrants will not be able to draw two pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-13", "file": "debates1954-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a7b3f437b078714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1434.2", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Clause 2.—(HIGHER RATES, ETC., OF CON TRIBUTIONS AND BENEFIT UNDER NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946, AND ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EXCHEQUER.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morley", "preceding_text": "New entrants will not be able to draw two pensions. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"] Oh, no. For example, in the teaching profession a new entrant will not be allowed to draw his occupational pension and the State pension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1434.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-13", "file": "debates1954-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a7b3f437b078714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1438.3", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Clause 2.—(HIGHER RATES, ETC., OF CON TRIBUTIONS AND BENEFIT UNDER NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946, AND ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EXCHEQUER.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the hon. Lady.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "er income groups, and he was allowed to go a very long way, if I may say so with great respect, Sir Rhys, and when the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) puts that question to me, although I do not want to develop the answer at length, because I realise that that would be out of order, I think I am entitled to give him an answer; otherwise, he will say that I funked it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-13", "file": "debates1954-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a7b3f437b078714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Clause 2.—(HIGHER RATES, ETC., OF CON TRIBUTIONS AND BENEFIT UNDER NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946, AND ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EXCHEQUER.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No, the burden on the Exchequer was too great.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "argued very powerfully in favour of a non-contributory scheme. Mr. Snowden's argument was that social welfare benefits should come out of taxation, and I cannot see why that principle cannot be applied today. Why was the Exchequer contribution reduced from one-fifth to one-seventh in 1951? It was because the Chancellor at that time argued that armaments were more important than insurance benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-13", "file": "debates1954-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a7b3f437b078714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1449.1", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Clause 2.—(HIGHER RATES, ETC., OF CON TRIBUTIONS AND BENEFIT UNDER NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946, AND ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EXCHEQUER.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Summers", "preceding_text": "I want to be brief and it is not worth the hon. Member interrupting me here. My only other observation is this. If I were a pensioner or, perhaps, a prospective pensioner is better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-13", "file": "debates1954-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a7b3f437b078714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1484.0", "colnum": "1484", "heading": "Clause 4.—(SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AS TO CERTAIN CLASSES OF PERSONS.)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "ne regretted that they were not covered by the Money Resolution. I want to say to the Minister that he must be aware that at our Margate Conference he said he could do almost anything without a committee and, therefore, he could help. This very deserving section of the community always seem to get left out because they have not got any powerful voices to talk for them. I am extremely disappointed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-13", "file": "debates1954-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a7b3f437b078714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1497.0", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Clause 5.—(PROVISIONS AS TO APPOINTED DAY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. Brown", "preceding_text": " side of the Committee wish to ask is whether it is true that the trade unions were consulted as to whether it was possible for the Post Office workers to pay out the increased benefits at a much earlier date than that suggested by the Government. With all due respect to the Parliamentary Secretary, he has not answered the question put to him by my hon. Friend. However much he may try to evade it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-13", "file": "debates1954-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a7b3f437b078714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1504.0", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Clause 5.—(PROVISIONS AS TO APPOINTED DAY.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": " today. I also recall the length of time which it took to carry out a much smaller operation in 1951, when an improvement in pensions was announced in the middle of April and was not fully effected until 1st October. I prophesied, when the Motion of censure was moved a month ago by the Opposition, that when I made my proposals they would complain, naturally, that they were too little and too late.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-13a.1504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1552.0", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "In general, I agree that the principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse is a very bad principle, but in this particular case, I feel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1557.2", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "While thanking the Minister in anticipation for the figures which I hope to get—whatever they may be—may I ask the Minister if he is aware of the very acute housing shortage in Rugby, due to the influx of workers for the booming export industries of engineering and cars?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "Why is the right hon. Gentleman trying to cover the fact that all over the country he or his regional representatives have been making savage and indeed callous cuts in council housing programmes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1559.3", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel Lipton", "preceding_text": "hy is the right hon. Gentleman trying to cover the fact that all over the country he or his regional representatives have been making savage and indeed callous cuts in council housing programmes? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The figures provided will substantiate that accusation. Why is he taking houses started in 1952 into the calculation for the purpose of bolstering up these purely fictitious figures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1559.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1559.6", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandys", "preceding_text": "It is no use the hon. and gallant Gentleman or other hon. Members opposite trying to stir up controversy over housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1576.1", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Field Marshal Montgomery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Warbey", "preceding_text": "the area of Field Marshal Montgomery's command, namely, in Schleswig-Holstein; and, secondly, whether it is not a fact that a great deal of concern was expressed by other Allied circles, including the Russians and the Americans, regarding all that was going on in that area and the use to which Nazi leaders were being put? May I also ask the right hon. Gentleman why it was difficult for Montgomery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1585.2", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule. —(AMENDMENTS OF BENEFIT PROVISIONS OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blyton", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to my right hon. Friend. It seems that hon. Members opposite are not concerned about the benefits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1594.2", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule. —(AMENDMENTS OF BENEFIT PROVISIONS OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The steel industry.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Brown", "preceding_text": "h greater force as days go by. I would remind the Minister that men in the mining industry who have contributed to the Industrial Injuries Fund for years have conceded, and continue to concede, their Saturday holiday. They are working a voluntary shift. In what other industries are men making such a sacrifice as they make in the mining industry, in the production of the coal which is so essential?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule. —(AMENDMENTS OF BENEFIT PROVISIONS OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A statutory one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed, and an industry with which I myself in the old days, like the right hon. Gentleman, used to be very familiar and closely connected. It is a reason for pride that the coal-mining industry, perhaps the most dangerous of all, was the first one to promote a scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1614.1", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Second Schedule. —(AMENDMENTS OF BENEFIT PROVISIONS OF INDUSTRIAL INJURIES ACT.)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Divide.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John McKay", "preceding_text": "Mr. John McKay (Wallsend) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1676.2", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Third Schedule.—(PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN FIRST SCHEDULE TO NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "I think that we have to decide what principles and what figures are suitable now in 1954—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1700.8", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN SECOND SCHEDULE TO NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harris", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes. The Housewives League—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1700.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1713.3", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN SECOND SCHEDULE TO NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Send him a telegram.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "This is one of the free Parliaments—and there are not many of them today—but the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Woodford (Sir W. Churchill) would not have been Prime Minister had some of the hon. Members opposite been able to find someone more suitable to their own point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1714.1", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN SECOND SCHEDULE TO NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "ly 10 or 15 people.\" Its expenses go down and it can make a bigger profit. In other words, 10 or 15 people are thrown out of work and the firm gets rid of 10 or 15 contributions to the cost of those people's unemployment. That is a system which the party opposite presents to us as the most logical and perfect of any system in the world. We are presented with a scheme which is actuarially nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-14", "file": "debates1954-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "09af26f975231244", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fourth Schedule.—(PROVISIONS TO BE SUBSTITUTED IN SECOND SCHEDULE TO NATIONAL INSURANCE ACT, 1946.)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Go on, you like it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "e a week out of every insured workman's contribution to the Industrial Injuries Act. Having done that, they add another 11d. to the Social Insurance Scheme contribution, on the basis that this will make it actuarially sound. Then in the debates they point out that it is not actuarially sound, that it never will be, and that it is not an insurance scheme at all. I do not want to prolong the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-14a.1717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1744.1", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"An excuse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hopkinson", "preceding_text": "I must point out that the Kenya Prisons Ordinance was passed under the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1744.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "First, it is not flogging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1746.1", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KENYA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "First, it is not flogging. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it then?\"] Corporal punishment of not more than 12 strokes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1780.2", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Major Gwilym Lloyd-George)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many more?", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department and Minister for Welsh Affairs (Major Gwilym Lloyd-George)", "preceding_text": "mportant point, the fact that the total number of constituencies is restricted by the Act in effect obliges the Commission to proceed on the basis which I have mentioned. Clearly, if seats were allocated in England on the basis of the average electorate for Great Britain it is mathematically inevitable that the total number of seats would come to something substantially more than the existing 506.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1780.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "I am trying to present the Commission's Report and I am explaining what it had in its mind. Rightly or wrongly, the Commission says that it is mathematically inevitable—I think that is agreed—that the total number of seats becomes substantially more than 506.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1786.0", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With the Whips off?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "dations; it is for Parliament to decide. This independent body, which was appointed by Parliament, is only doing its duty in bringing a Report forward for the House to decide what shall be done. That is the position, no more and no less. Every hon. and right hon. Member is entitled, when the draft Orders come forward, to debate them, and it is open to the House to do what it likes with the Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1786.0", "colnum": "1786", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"When is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "e, to have a separate Order for each separate change recommended by the Commission. When an Order has been approved and made, it will take effect in 14 days. This means that, assuming that the Orders are made within a short time, the 1955 register will be based on the new constituencies. For the purposes of an election, however, the changes will not take effect until the next General Election and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1786.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1789.1", "colnum": "1789", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "Yes, but I do not think that anything was done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1808.1", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "kes of that sort, and that that has been the reason for the mistakes. What, if the Commission has made mistakes of that sort, ought to happen next? I differ with extreme regret from my right hon. and gallant Friend and from the Government, which I am supporting in any case. My right hon. Friend knows that I differ from him with more regret than that with which I differ from some of his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1808.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or ethical.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "n Boroughs individually affected by the proposals voice their objections, it is wrong that there should be no possibility of an inquiry from the English Commissioners. Finally, after doing all these things, breaking all these rules, being discourteous to so many people, the English Commission ends with a Report which cannot be justified on any principle, mathematical or geographical or historical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or legal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "posals voice their objections, it is wrong that there should be no possibility of an inquiry from the English Commissioners. Finally, after doing all these things, breaking all these rules, being discourteous to so many people, the English Commission ends with a Report which cannot be justified on any principle, mathematical or geographical or historical—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Or ethical.\"]—or ethical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Woodburn", "preceding_text": " methods and the whole attitude of the Commission in England in the way it went about its work. Other Members feel very strongly about it, and because the House is anxious that Members who want to discuss these particular Orders shall not be unduly delayed, it has been impossible to keep the general debate going long enough to allow all hon. Members who would like to object to make their speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1854.3", "colnum": "1854", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wales?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": " it can be seen that it exercised that latitude. However, I do not rule that out. But, as an example that mathematics cannot rule us entirely in these matters, I would mention one point which I think is a very good example of how rural constituencies may not have so heavy an electorate as urban constituencies. Take, for example, two Northern Scottish seats, Ross and Cromarty and the Western Isles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1854.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1860.1", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " will apply to any other? Therefore, we ought to have the answer. If, unhappily, both the Minister and the Secretary of State for Scotland have departed, perhaps the Joint Undersecretary would tell us whether, in fact, each Order is to be treated cm its merits and the Home Secretary will carry out the pledge which he gave to me in his letter that he would have an open mind on each of these Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1860.1", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As you did in 1948.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ost invidious that the party which happens to draw the advantage from this system, and which will get further advantage under these proposals, should say, \"We are going to push these proposals through the House with the Whips on, and are going to do so as fast as possible. Whatever the House may say on the general principle, we have decided in advance that we are going to get the Measure through.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1872.1", "colnum": "1872", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "pt the democratic sanctions of Parliament when they will know beforehand that by Conservative behaviour the House of Commons is being rigged? I ask hon. and right hon. Members opposite to be exceedingly careful of what they are doing. I should have thought that the best thing that the Government could do would be to call off tomorrow's business and seriously to consider what has been said tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1872.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1875.3", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "ng if it were thought that these dicussions today were rigged for any party reason. I agree entirely with him. I made it perfectly dear in my speech that it would be a very bad thing for Parliamentary institutions if that ever became common knowledge or common thought. All I have to say is this. This Commission, whose Report we are discussing, carried out its work under Rules laid down by Statute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1875.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1875.7", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1875.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1876.1", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Take the Whips off.", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "And leave has been given to me. I am only getting up to give an absolute denial to any suggestions that have been made about breaking the Rules, and I will finish this by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1876.4", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order. The right hon. and gallant Gentleman referred to the argument that had been put forward by several hon. Members on this side of the House to the effect that the Rules laid down by the Act have not been observed by the Commission. We have not had a single answer, and not a reasoned answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1876.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1877.0", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "ht hon. and gallant Gentleman referred to the argument that had been put forward by several hon. Members on this side of the House to the effect that the Rules laid down by the Act have not been observed by the Commission. We have not had a single answer, and not a reasoned answer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not a point of order.\"] May I ask the right hon. and gallant Gentleman to deal with one point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1876.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1877.2", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Very well, Sir, I will put it in the form of a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1877.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1877.3", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Very well, Sir, I will put it in the form of a point of order. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I can do it in one of two ways. I shall ask in the first instance for courtesy to be extended to myself in the same way as it was extended to the Minister, and I shall ask the Leader of the House to deal with one point which was raised by the right hon. and gallant Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1877.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1877.6", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "Then I ask leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1877.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1877.12", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Objection is taken to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1877.11"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1878.12", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "Mr. Stuart rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1878.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1879.2", "colnum": "1879", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept such a Motion from the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1879.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1881.5", "colnum": "1881", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. E. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "May I raise a point of order with you, Sir Rhys? The right hon. Gentleman the Patronage Secretary, sitting on the Bench to which he has just returned, ventured a remark to one of my hon. Friends behind me that he was a rat. I wish to ask you whether that is a Parliamentary expression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1881.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1882.0", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. P. G. T. Buchan Hepburn)", "preceding_text": "I certainly withdraw that remark, and I apologise to you and the House, but I do think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1881.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1882.3", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan-Hepburn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan-Hepburn", "preceding_text": "I could have said this before I apologised to the House. Perhaps the House will let me do it now. I think it a little ungenerous that all this commotion should come from the other side when it is well known that the Leader of the House is dining somewhere else, as well as the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1882.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1883.9", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "That was disposed of before I called the hon. Member for Dagenham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1883.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1885.2", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The electorate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "For determining the electoral quota—I am making it quite clear. You have regard to the population of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1885.2", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "For determining the electoral quota—I am making it quite clear. You have regard to the population of Great Britain. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The electorate.\"] You have regard to the electorate of Great Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1885.6", "colnum": "1885", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Sir Charles MacAndrew)", "preceding_text": "No point of order can arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1885.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1886.5", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "I have a great fellow feeling with the learned Attorney-General for having to deal with this matter rather quickly in this way, and I do not want to be in the least hostile. First, I am sure he would agree, upon reconsideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1886.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1886.6", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I believe that the hon. and learned Member has already made a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1886.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1886.7", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L. Ungoed-Thomas", "preceding_text": "I hope I was merely making a courteous opening to my question, and no more than that. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman will look at paragraph 10, I am sure he will find that it has nothing at all to do with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1886.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1887.3", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy-Speaker", "preceding_text": "I cannot hear what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but he has already spoken once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1887.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1894.6", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (BOUNDARY COMMISSION REPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silverman", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that it might be possible in this case, and perhaps we shall know in a moment or two whether it was or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1894.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1915.0", "colnum": "1915", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "ion which we are submitting to you, because we were given clearly to understand during the debate that, instead of this matter being regarded as entirely above party, and impartially, in the interests of the country and of its Parliamentary Elections, as I am sure you, Sir, would wish it to be regarded, the party opposite had put on, and would put on, three-line Whips to get these Orders approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1920.2", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which changes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": " question before the House is, I understand, the representation of certain Scottish constituencies. My understanding is that there is no dispute about the rightness or wrongness of this change. There is debate in this House when it is possible to advance arguments, but, as is also proper in these matters, opinion has been sounded on both sides, and opinion in general is in favour of these changes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1920.2", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "tituencies. My understanding is that there is no dispute about the rightness or wrongness of this change. There is debate in this House when it is possible to advance arguments, but, as is also proper in these matters, opinion has been sounded on both sides, and opinion in general is in favour of these changes. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Which changes?\"] The consultations which are essential have resulted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1920.2", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Three-line Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "r of these changes. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Which changes?\"] The consultations which are essential have resulted—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If English Members would do their best to be silent while there is an argument on Scottish affairs, we should proceed more quickly. I merely say that when we get to the arguments on these matters we can consider them on their merits, and I am perfectly prepared to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1920.2", "colnum": "1920", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A long time ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Elliot", "preceding_text": "ich are essential have resulted—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] If English Members would do their best to be silent while there is an argument on Scottish affairs, we should proceed more quickly. I merely say that when we get to the arguments on these matters we can consider them on their merits, and I am perfectly prepared to do so. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Three-line Whip.\"] I have voted against my party before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1920.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1922.6", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David J. Pryde", "preceding_text": "I ask the House not to approve this Order. Before the Leader of the House leaves the Chamber, may I ask him whether he will see that the Lord Advocate is present to answer points of Scottish law which will arise on this Order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1922.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1922.8", "colnum": "1922", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "Certain very serious charges will arise out of the discussion on this Order, and I will not accept the interpretation of an English lawyer. I am perfectly justified in asking for the services of a Scottish Law Officer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1922.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1923.2", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "We are going to get into a very haphazard method of doing business if it is said that Ministers will be here just when they please. I would ask the Secretary of State whether he will answer the questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1923.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1923.4", "colnum": "1923", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "About the Lord Advocate.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Stuart", "preceding_text": "I do not know what questions I am to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1927.1", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "There is more identity of interest in weaving between Midlothan and Peebles than many suspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1927.3", "colnum": "1927", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pryde", "preceding_text": "When the Edinburgh Water Trust built a track to a reservoir across a moor the workmen discovered many seams of coal. Sir George Clarke, of Penicuik, exactly 100 years ago, had 145 people working coal on a moor which incorporates part of Peeblesshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-15", "file": "debates1954-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9e2b3de788b6875", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1936.2", "colnum": "1936", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "I would ask the Secretary of State to reconsider this Order. His speech was really no reply to the reasonable points put by my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian and Peebles (Mr. Pryde). Let me remind the House of those points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-15a.1936.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2059.5", "colnum": "2059", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. C. Lockwood", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about prisons?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lieut.-Colonel J. C. Lockwood", "preceding_text": "twood. The Catholic diocese of Brentwood comprises both districts, and the cathedral is in Brentwood. In Brentwood there is a well-known grammar school for boys, and there is also a high school for girls. Both those establishments cater for the children of Brentwood and district. All the offices of the Ministry of Labour and National Service, and of the National Assistance Board, are in Brentwood.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2059.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2063.1", "colnum": "2063", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why did they emigrate?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "lant Friend has said about the relative merits of Brentwood and Billericay. Billericay is much older than Brentwood, to start with. It is known not only in this country as a place of great charm and distinction, but is known well in the United States, since it was from Billericay that five of the Pilgrim Fathers came. The \"Mayflower\" was actually victualled by Christopher Martin, a Billericay man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2113.1", "colnum": "2113", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ther public bodies in Blackburn have been unanimous in their protests against this proposal. The town clerk, as many other town clerks have done, and equally vainly, wrote to the Commission on behalf of the borough council to protest, and to point out that the electors of these three wards who are citizens of Blackburn for all municipal purposes, will now find that they have to lead a double life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2119.1", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "e on the outskirts, in the suburbs, of Blackburn, whose whole lives are led in Blackburn, to the present 80,000. Various things might have been done; various suggestions might have been made. The people of Blackburn are not very satisfied when they hear that in other cases inquiries have been held. Why were inquiries held in other places? Has any other constituency quite as strong a case as this?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2119.1", "colnum": "2119", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What a hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Assheton", "preceding_text": "to inquire into the objections raised by a very important corporation in the North of England, in an area with which perhaps they are not familiar. It should not have been difficult for them to have sent someone along to conduct an inquiry, but they did not do so. In view of all this, I do hope that the Home Secretary will pay some attention to the representations made by the hon. Lady and myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2122.4", "colnum": "2122", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "e boroughs with an electorate of a little more than 80,000 which the Boundary Commission, in 1947, recommended should have only one seat, but which was Given two seats in 1948. Between 1946 and 1953 its electorate declined from 84,641 to 81,218. The 1954 figure shows that the electorate of one of these constituencies is now below 40,000. If we grant that two Lancashire seats must now be abolished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2123.1", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "The minimum representation for Scotland is laid down in the Act, and also the total representation for Great Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2123.3", "colnum": "2123", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "We have already discussed that on a number of occasions. In every case there is one more addition. Every number is composed of a quantity of ones. If we started increasing the number this year we should completely defeat the provisions of the Act. It is on that basis that Lancashire must lose two constituencies. Accepting that, then one of those constituencies must be Blackburn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2129.4", "colnum": "2129", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He will not reply.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Williams", "preceding_text": "ss or colour. I have found great encouragement and loyalty, and I shall always feel proud of my association with this populous, industrialised, friendly section of south-east Lancashire. I claim that in opposing this Order I am also acting in accordance with the expressed wishes of the people of the four townships of the constituency of Droylsden. I would ask the Home Secretary, if he is to reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2129.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2133.1", "colnum": "2133", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": ". In fairness to Manchester, it must be readily conceded that it has strongly opposed absorption of the three towns from the Droylsden constituency. This is not a case of a 'big large unit or city wanting to swallow small fry. Public opinion in Manchester, equally with that in Droylsden, has aligned itself against this move. A leading public man in Manchester, a Liberal—there are not many of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2143.1", "colnum": "2143", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "n decided to uphold the decision of the Boundary Commission, I should not have had another word to say, nor, I think, would anyone else in Manchester. I do not think that anyone can derive any satisfaction from these unfortunate debates. There are weighty arguments which we can put forward, but it seems that the Home Secretary must inevitably rely on the recommendations of the Boundary Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2148.3", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From the Home Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": " any views at all. It just got a map of the largest scale possible and a few figures, and decided on that basis. Then it did not even bother to hold a public inquiry at which the right hon. Lady could express her views. The House of Commons is asked to say that what the Boundary Commission decided yesterday, Manchester should have today. We ought to have from the Under-Secretary a reasoned answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2148.3", "colnum": "2148", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "e? Let him try; let him come to the Box and say why the wisdom of Herefordshire is so much greater than that of Manchester. I am prepared to admit that they should be equally represented, but the right hon. and gallant Gentleman is not. He says there must be a different system. If one lives in the country one is entitled to have 1¼ more Members than in the town where the production is done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2154.1", "colnum": "2154", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"There are ex-Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": ". Of course, the Government also knows, as we all know, that if the House has an all-night Sitting there will be abridged reports in the newspapers. I do not know, in that connection, what the \"Manchester Guardian\" will do, because I think it will be in some difficulty. Let me explain; one of the reasons why I am speaking at this moment is that there is no member of the Liberal Party here tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2157.1", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "strously, it would add up to a defeat of the whole proposition that the Government have been advancing, and the Government know it. Rt. hon. Gentlemen opposite know it; everyone on this side of the House knows it; the Press knows it; the whole country knows it—everyone knows that the well-nigh unanimous opinion of the House of Commons on a free vote would be to chuck out the whole of these Orders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2157.1", "colnum": "2157", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"With an open mind.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "-table. We are all going off next Wednesday. Nothing will be altered. All this was decided at a Cabinet meeting a day or two ago. We do not care a fig for the opinion of the House of Commons.\" This is the procedure that is happening, and every hon. Member knows it. Not an hon. Member in the House of Commons will get up and deny it. They all know that the Cabinet decided this two or three days ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2163.2", "colnum": "2163", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Blackpool?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "ster, Exchange (Mr. W. Griffiths), who said that this question had already, to some extent, been covered by the previous discussion on the Order relating to Blackburn. It is true. On that Order I argued that the result of carrying out the rules would necessitate Lancashire's having to lose two seats. I do not need to go over that ground again. In the case of Blackpool, the matter has been decided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2163.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2164.6", "colnum": "2164", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "Another seat has to come from Lancashire and that seat should properly come from Manchester.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2164.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2166.1", "colnum": "2166", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "I believe that a statutory Commission of this sort is a novelty and that this is the first time we have proceeded in this way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2167.1", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What law?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members suggest that the law should not be complied with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2167.1", "colnum": "2167", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The law?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members suggest that the law should not be complied with—[HON. MEMBERS: \"What law?\".] I quite understand that one could make a case against this proposal, but, assuming compliance with the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2168.0", "colnum": "2168", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman keeps on saying \"using a different quota.\" The quota used today is exactly the quota used by the Labour Government when it was fixed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2168.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2170.0", "colnum": "2170", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis Smith", "preceding_text": " Now they are beginning to feel that there is a different law for the South and for the North. This Order will increase their doubts and undermine their confidence. Therefore, I appeal to the right hon. and gallant Gentleman to withdraw this Order, pending consultation with the local authorities and the representative bodies in the area. That is a democratic suggestion that ought to be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2169.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2171.0", "colnum": "2171", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hudson", "preceding_text": "s the beginning of a process which, if continued, can lead to the power of the central authority becoming greater and greater over that of the votes of democracy. I say that to disregard the appeals which have been made tonight will do a vital injury to the principles of democracy itself. I hope that, even now, the right hon. Gentleman will listen to the appeals made to him to withdraw this Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2176.5", "colnum": "2176", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stinker\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I think that the opportunity should be taken by an hon. Member on the back benches to draw attention to the outstanding fact that for the last three hours there has only been one short statement from the Government Front Bench in favour of this Order. Every other speaker has condemned it and its consequences, hook, line and sinker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2176.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2182.3", "colnum": "2182", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bing", "preceding_text": "s renowned for his discretion, does not bother to get up to say what Conservative policy is. Is he not prepared to say whether or not what he stated in connection with one Order is true of them all? Or is this a reason for taking a seat away from Manchester, and, when dealing with other constituencies, is this to be entirely disregarded? Is the right hon. and gallant Gentleman not going to answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2182.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2187.5", "colnum": "2187", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pickthorn", "preceding_text": "I hope later to make a very long speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2187.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2193.0", "colnum": "2193", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Nabarro", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2228.3", "colnum": "2228", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not answer the question? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Major Lloyd-George", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that in this case the Commission has made a recommendation in complete accord with the wishes of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2235.1", "colnum": "2235", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He has had a very long innings.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. J. Mellish", "preceding_text": " he did not do that, and he does not know anything about it. It is a pity that the right hon. and gallant Gentleman did not go out to Australia. They need some stonewallers out there at the moment, because I understand that England has lost two wickets so far. He would do much better than he has done here. He has merely said, \"The Boundary Commission's Report is inevitable and you must accept it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2236.1", "colnum": "2236", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about last time? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "and learned Friend the Member for Stoke Newington and Hackney, North (Mr. Weitzman) this Tory Government were going to show we Socialists how to do the job. When the Act was introduced they said that it was a bad Measure, but they have not done much about it. If it was so bad, why did not they do something about it? The reason is that it suited them, and they do not intend to do anything about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2236.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2246.0", "colnum": "2246", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. T. Williams", "preceding_text": " discovered something of the facts of the situation on which he was to act as judge. I attempted to get in touch with him, and I got a reply in which he gave me an undertaking, as he gave other Members, that he would come to this debate prepared to listen to the argument with an open mind and pay careful attention to anything that was said, and that when he heard it he would then make up his mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2273.0", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "Of course the whole question of redistribution is hypothetical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2273.0", "colnum": "2273", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not on the figures?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Lucas-Tooth", "preceding_text": "Of course the whole question of redistribution is hypothetical. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] We have to proceed on a hypothesis, and I would proceed on the hypothesis recommended by the Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2283.3", "colnum": "2283", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Mr. Harry Crookshank)", "preceding_text": " That this House do now adjourn. I hope that the hon. Member who has the Adjournment will excuse me for moving this Motion. We have not finished this business, as I had hoped we might, and as their was every indication in the earlier part of the day that we might. We have reached the time when in my opinion, and in the opinion of my colleagues, it is no longer suitable for the House to be sitting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2284.0", "colnum": "2284", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "I apologise for the few minutes or so which I may take. I am not sure who has won so far, but I accept the right hon. Member's Motion in the spirit in which he has moved it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-16", "file": "debates1954-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "c6666ba8b09ffe2f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2285.1", "colnum": "2285", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ede", "preceding_text": "The next Order could have been called and the adjournment of the debate then moved. That would have given an opportunity to discuss it without entrenching on anyone's time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-16a.2285.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-17", "file": "debates1954-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "64ed465445a15c27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-17a.2290.1", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is the Lord Privy Seal not wildly optimistic about Monday's business? There are the Parliamentary Constituency Orders, and then it is proposed to take the National Assistance Regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-17a.2290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-17", "file": "debates1954-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "64ed465445a15c27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-17a.2290.1", "colnum": "2290", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where were they last night?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emrys Hughes", "preceding_text": "tituency Orders, and then it is proposed to take the National Assistance Regulations. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am sorry; that is on Tuesday. The Leader of the House assumes that the National Assistance Regulations will be finished by 9 o'clock, but after 9 o'clock there is to be an important matter affecting Scotland. Scottish Members are bitterly indignant about the way that the House treats them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-17a.2290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-17", "file": "debates1954-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "64ed465445a15c27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-17a.2313.1", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Than peeling potatoes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "ore useful abroad than in this country undertaking National Service. If we have a young man of 20 years of age who has passed all his examinations in relation to a particular vocation or profession and who wishes to go abroad for five or 10 years, perhaps to some of our Colonial Territories or to some other country in which we happen to be interested, he might be rendering far more useful service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-17a.2313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-17", "file": "debates1954-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "64ed465445a15c27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-17a.2313.1", "colnum": "2313", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shinwell", "preceding_text": "five or 10 years, perhaps to some of our Colonial Territories or to some other country in which we happen to be interested, he might be rendering far more useful service. [An HON. MEMBER: \"Than peeling potatoes.\"] Yes, in the absence of the necessary machinery, although no doubt the Secretary of State for War after three years will at least have been able to provide machinery for peeling potatoes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-17a.2313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-17", "file": "debates1954-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "64ed465445a15c27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-17a.2340.1", "colnum": "2340", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigg", "preceding_text": "I was wondering whether I would be pulled up. Field marshals are also members of the Army but presumably they are beyond any application of this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-17a.2340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2410.5", "colnum": "2410", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PENSIONS AND NATIONAL INSURANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peake", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The Federation appealed for 50,000 leaflets to be sent to me. In fact 15 were sent. Later, a bundle containing 2,667 was sent, but of those more than half, 1,524, were old, shop-soiled stock of a previous campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2410.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2432.5", "colnum": "2432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FORMOSA (BRITISH POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2433.7", "colnum": "2433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FORMOSA (BRITISH POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not do it, then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Turton", "preceding_text": "I have no objection at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2433.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2440.3", "colnum": "2440", "heading": "CYPRUS (DISTURBANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "The reasons put forward are shown in the Resolution, which I will not read to the House, because the House already knows it. All I can say is that we are entitled to claim moral backing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2442.2", "colnum": "2442", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "I can meet the right hon. Gentleman to this extent. The Government will make a statement on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2442.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2444.3", "colnum": "2444", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crookshank", "preceding_text": "No one realises more than do the Government how serious are the matters in issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2444.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2445.1", "colnum": "2445", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "le feeling that the outcome of the Orders themselves was politically unfair? Even if it now transpires that, on a narrow legal interpretation, the Boundary Commissioners have not misread the rules and that, technically, they are correct, has not such grave suspicion been cast upon the equity of their recommendations that the Government ought not now to proceed to validate any of the Orders at all?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2447.2", "colnum": "2447", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "n bear in mind two points? Whatever the position which arises as the result of the making of the interim injunction, unless this matter goes to the highest court in the land and unless all the contested issues, by agreement, are decided by the highest court in the land, it will still remain open for any citizen to challenge the validity of any of these Orders even after the election has been held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2447.2", "colnum": "2447", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hale", "preceding_text": "n has been held. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Undoubtedly, yes. The whole point which is raised is whether the Orders can validly be made at all under the provisions of the Statute, and if they cannot, they remain invalid whether the Royal Assent is given or not. Secondly, we have to bear in mind that this is perhaps the most serious constitutional crisis which has occurred since the reign of Queen Anne.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2447.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2498.1", "colnum": "2498", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Squadron Leader Cooper", "preceding_text": "The point which I am making is that people in need can apply to the National Assistance Board for supplementation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2522.0", "colnum": "2522", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "That is a legitimate statement, and rather different from what we heard at the beginning of this debate. It is, at least in this case, the recommendation of this particular body. I am not sure how these particular scales are arrived at. I should like to know more about it because, on the face of it, it does seem that now there is a case for a rather larger increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2522.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2522.2", "colnum": "2522", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gower", "preceding_text": "uld know more about the matter than we do. We must remember that, whether we like it or not, just as the Boundary Commissioners know more about the actual state of the constituencies than we do, having made a special study of the problem, so, similarly, I would assume that the Chairman and officers of the National Assistance Board really know more about the detailed needs of the people than we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2522.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2546.1", "colnum": "2546", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "f the National Assistance Board. My recollection is that at the time—and right hon. Gentlemen opposite can correct me if I am wrong—Mr. Buchanan was asked whether he would like to be Minister of National Insurance. He immediately inquired of the Labour Government whether they intended at once to raise old-age pensions, and when he was told that they did not, he said he did not wish to be Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2546.1", "colnum": "2546", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Lady is telling a story.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "o be Minister of National Insurance. He immediately inquired of the Labour Government whether they intended at once to raise old-age pensions, and when he was told that they did not, he said he did not wish to be Minister. [ Laughter .] That is a great tribute to him, because he supported his beliefs. Hon. Members opposite may laugh, but I like sincerity, from whichever side of the House it comes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-20", "file": "debates1954-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "8779ff755a5f9744", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2547.1", "colnum": "2547", "heading": "NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Ward", "preceding_text": "register. I am a firm believer in continuing a battle because, in the long run, justice always triumphs. In a large number of small battles I have engaged, or have watched other people engage, they have all been won in the long run. So I shall put this on record again, although I have no doubt that the Minister will not be very pleased with me. That does not worry me one little bit. Two years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-20a.2547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2575.1", "colnum": "2575", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart", "preceding_text": "So far as unclassified roads are concerned, I shall have the power to do whatever I am permitted to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2575.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2578.2", "colnum": "2578", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton-Kemsley", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend realise that his answer will give great satisfaction to those of us who are greatly concerned at the large number of certificates of disrepair being issued by local authorities on quite trivial grounds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2591.5", "colnum": "2591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (UNITED KINGDOM BASES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that last week-end the N.A.T.O. Council confirmed the fact that its military plans are based on the assumption that atomic weapons will be used automatically in the next war; which means, therefore, that when war is declared it will inevitably become an atomic war on a full scale, involving also the use of the United States Strategic Air Force in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2591.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2591.6", "colnum": "2591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (UNITED KINGDOM BASES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "the fact that its military plans are based on the assumption that atomic weapons will be used automatically in the next war; which means, therefore, that when war is declared it will inevitably become an atomic war on a full scale, involving also the use of the United States Strategic Air Force in this country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and in view of this fact, and the change in the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2600.2", "colnum": "2600", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": " thing? The Court of Appeal's judgment proceeded on an examination of the merits and the injunction was set aside on the ground that there was no prima facie evidence that anybody's rights had, in fact, been illegally infringed. The court made it perfectly clear, did it not, that if it had thought that there had been such an infringement, it would have regarded it as within its power to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2600.2", "colnum": "2600", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, you are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. S. Silverman", "preceding_text": "anybody's rights had, in fact, been illegally infringed. The court made it perfectly clear, did it not, that if it had thought that there had been such an infringement, it would have regarded it as within its power to intervene. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Indeed, it was stated that the courts had already claimed such a right. What I want to put to the right hon. Gentleman is this: if I am right so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2600.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2602.0", "colnum": "2602", "heading": "REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE (PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "It appears perfectly clear that the courts could not interfere with the access of a Minister to the Crown after the House of Commons had approved the draft Orders. That position does not apply, however, to the draft Orders which have not yet been discussed by the House, and apparently the courts would be free to grant injunctions against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2610.3", "colnum": "2610", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have expressed regret that I was misinformed on the subject. I was going to express regret in another direction from which I have also been reproached, but as it will be more for the convenience of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2610.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2614.0", "colnum": "2614", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is what he said.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Hughes", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member has apparently misunderstood my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (Mr. Ross). He was referring, I think, not to Christmas Day but to Burns' night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2613.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2618.0", "colnum": "2618", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. C. Manuel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. C. Manuel", "preceding_text": "ction with roads and transport which were formerly carried out by the Minister of Transport. The Leader of the House was asked by his hon. Friend the Member for Scotstoun (Mr. J. R. H. Hutchison) if he would extend the hour and give more time for the discussion of this most comprehensive Report. He dismissed the question with no consideration whatsoever. He gave no satisfaction to his hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2638.1", "colnum": "2638", "heading": "BILLS OF EXCHANGE ACT, 1882 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "nd final discharge of such-and-such an account.\" But so far as the simple receipt is concerned, I trust that the House will approve the inclusion in the Bill of a provision that a cheque so specially crossed, deemed to be endorsed as I have described, would be sufficient evidence of receipt of the money by the payee named on the cheque and that any further receipt would be superfluous. Many other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2638.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2676.0", "colnum": "2676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL ASSISTANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Irene Ward", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1954-12-21", "file": "debates1954-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "0eae63bab46a841f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2713.2", "colnum": "2713", "heading": "TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING, SCOTLAND (MINERAL DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do remember that, and I think the House can continue to discuss the Regulations. I understand from the speeches of several hon. Members that there are slight corrections and discrepancies between the different editions of the roneoed script. Am I right about that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1954-12-21a.2713.2"}